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Human Rights Watch, J-ALL (Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation) and Athlete Ally urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to support legislation protecting LGBTQ people against discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation. On 17 April 2020, 96 human rights and LGBTQ organizations sent a letter to the Prime Minister calling for the ...
The LGBTQ community in Tokyo is one of the largest in Asia.While Japan does not assign as much moral or social weight to sexuality as in the West, it is still difficult for Japanese people to come out in society as being LGBT; [1] the community reportedly experiences homophobia even amongst those in the community. [2]
A Pew Research Center poll conducted between June and September 2023 showed that 68% of Japanese people supported same-sex marriage, 26% were opposed and 8% did not know or had refused to answer. When divided by age, support was highest among 18–34-year-olds at 84% and lowest among those aged 35 and above at 64%.
Japan is the only member of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations that does not recognise same-sex marriage or provide legal protections for LGBTQ people, despite polls showing public ...
Socially conservative Japan seems to be in no rush to follow its neighbors in East Asia and roll out the pink carpet to the LGBTQ community or recognize same-sex marriages. But where the Japanese ...
Japan's LGBTQ athletes are asking whether they have missed the best opportunity in a generation Japan Failed to Improve LGBTQ Rights Ahead of the Olympics. Japanese Athletes Are Coming Out Anyway
[47] [48] Prior to this, the wards of Shibuya and Setagaya (March 2018) had already passed explicit protections for LGBT people. [46] [49] In 1990, the group OCCUR (Japan Association for the Lesbian and Gay Movement) [50] won a court case against a Tokyo government policy that barred gay and lesbian youth from using the "Metropolitan House for ...
U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said that "Japan turned the tide today with the Diet’s passage of the LGBT law." Congratulating prime minister Fumio Kishida "for his leadership" and commending the Japanese public for their "commitment to LGBTQI+ rights." He added that the legislation is a "significant step on the journey to securing ...