LGBTQ rights activists are hopg that Japan may fally allow same-sex marriage if Taro Kono, who has publicly supported gay marriage, be the untry's next prime mister, but change will not e easily.
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JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
Homosexualy has been legal Japan sce 1880, and the untry is relatively liberal pared wh some other Asian natns.
Japan, Yamagata told CBS News, is no place to grow old for a gay uple. Yamagata, 57, weled this week's start of a new partnership certifitn system the cy of Tokyo, regnizg gay, non-bary and transgenr upl and allowg them to apply for public hog and to accs some public servic. A long-time gay rights activist, Yamagata helped steer the creatn of a siar partnership scheme his lol Tokyo ward, Nakano, back 2015.
Seven years ago — was eligible for the long-term rincy visa available to straight Japane-foreign upl, and even to gay upl who are both non-Japane. The cisn me a day after the US Senate passed a same-sex marriage protectn bill and Sgapore lifted a ban on gay sex but limed the prospects for legalizg same-sex marriage. “The cril part of is that the urt has agreed that lbian and gay upl serve equaly Japan, ” he says.