6月，日本国会通过首部关于性取向和性别认同的法律。该法旨在“增进理解”和避免“不公平的歧视”，条文规定“所有公民，无论其性取向或性别认同如何，都作为平等享有基本人权的不可替代的个人而受到尊重”。尽管是好的开始，与众多日本人权团体呼吁 ...

Takahiko Morinaga started the Japan LGBT Research Institute (part of Hakuhodo DY Holdings) last year while working as a planner. In this interview, he gives his view on the state of LGBT marketing in ...

Japan enacted a law on Friday meant to promote understanding of the LGBT community that critics say provides no human rights guarantees, though some conservative lawmakers said the measure is too ...

“Tax dollars are wasted on gay couples... They can’t reproduce and are thus ‘unproductive.’”—Mio Sugita, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker “There’s no need to legalize gay marriage ...

For Japan’s LGBT community, March 17, 2021, remains a red-letter day. That was when a Sapporo district court ruled that the national government’s failure to recognise same-sex marriages was a breach ...

LGBTQ rights in Japan suffered a blow on June 20, when a court in the country’s third-most populous city ruled that freedom of marriage in the constitution referred only to male-female unions, and ...

Madu Suzuki recalls how she couldn't summon up the courage to come out to her father in Japan until she moved to Canada to marry her partner. Now a staunch advocate for LGBT rights, Suzuki is hoping ...

Less than a fifth of the members of Japan’s LGBT community have opted to come out at their workplaces, according to a new study, although sexual minorities here say there is evidence of positive ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When openly gay independent candidate Wataru Ishizaka campaigned for a 2007 Tokyo local election, people snickered at his speeches, but now even Japan's conservative ruling party ...

Japan’s LGBT advocacy groups have launched a signature drive calling for legislation that would ban discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation. The groups hope that legislation could be ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiga Ishikawa has an uphill battle in his bid to become Japan's only openly gay member of parliament, but hopes his campaign for Sunday's general election will raise awareness in a ...