This is 3^rd book of Japanese translation of Frederic Martel’s work by Ms. Harume Hayashi, who made great work for the EU-Japan Fest 10^th anniversary commemorative symposium “the Role of Culture in an Age of Advancing Globalization” and the publication in 2003. From this new book, we can get wide and precious knowledge about present situation of human rights and culture of LGBT people through Martel’s report in approx. 50 countries of the world. On this occasion, talk events by Martel will be held at Maison Franco-Japonaise (Nov. 25) and Meiji University (Nov. 23), Tokyo. Don’t miss it!