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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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... LGBTQ history in Japan ... LGBTQ rights in Japan (3 C, 6 P) T. Transgender topics in Japan (2 C, 3 P) Pages in category "LGBTQ ...
Most political parties in Japan have formal positions in favor or against LGBT rights in their party's platform or manifesto. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has indicated opposition to legalizing same-sex marriage , whereas the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), the Japan Innovation Party , [ 36 ] and ...
[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 ...
LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) history in Japan Pages in category "LGBTQ history in Japan" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
A March 2021 poll from The Asahi Shimbun found that 65% of Japanese people supported same-sex marriage, with support rising to 86% among 18–29-year-olds. [5] A February 2023 Kyodo News poll showed that 64% of Japanese people supported same-sex marriage, while 25% were opposed. [137]
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 ...
Ibaraki Prefecture was the first prefecture of Japan and in the KantÅ region to introduce a partnership registry for same-sex couples, as well as the second in the country to pass LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination protections.