It's interesting how it shakes out historically, like one of the most popular Slavic names is "Dmitri", derived from "Demetrius", which is the Romans making a masculine name out of the name of the extremely female Greek goddess Demeter
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Which is very different from saying Japan doesn't have the *social* concept of gender, which it absolutely obviously does But that's why stuff isn't a one-to-one mapping to get languages
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Like Japanese doesn't have the equivalent of "he vs she", all pronouns are gender neutral (except recent ones invented specifically to translate "he/she" from Western texts) The "gendered first-person pronouns" people like to talk about are technically registers of politeness
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Japanese does have a distinction between animate and inanimate nouns, which might be related to what became gender in other languages … maybe?
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