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Someone Japanese literate can probably explain it better.

But from what I understand, in Japanese most of the time you're not going to be referring to someone in a manner that indicates their gender. Like I said, this can create issues when translating since it's possible to have zero dialogue that indicates if someone is a dude or a chick. So someone may never use any sort of personal pronouns, and others may never refer to them in any manner that tells you anything. So this requires translators to work around that, when dealing with languages with strong rules about gendered language.