Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny.
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- JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
- LE MARIAGE GAY FA UN (PET) PAS EN AVANT JAPON
- LE MARIAGE GAY VA ENF êTRE RENNU à TOKYO
- ? TOUT SAVOIR SUR LE MARIAGE GAY FRAN JAPONAIS [GUIDE]
- MARIAGE GAY AVEC UN JAPONAIS EN FRANCE POUR VIVRE JAPON ?
JAPAN’S SUPPORT FOR GAY MARRIAGE IS SOARG. BUT CAN IT BEE LAW?
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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. Homosexualy has been legal Japan sce 1880, and the untry is relatively liberal pared wh some other Asian natns.
“This is a good surprise for me and many homosexuals, ” Yayo Okano, a profsor at Doshisha Universy who specializ femist theory, tells TIME. Taiga Ishikawa, the first openly gay man elected to Japan’s Natnal Diet, tells TIME the se should ph the center-right ernment to take up the issue—bee the judg challenged the nstutnaly of nyg same-sex marriage rights.
“There’s still a lot of sual homophobia, sual homophobic kd of ments that that are heavily rooted and need to be examed as well.
LE MARIAGE GAY FA UN (PET) PAS EN AVANT JAPON
Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage is not unnstutnal, a urt has led, alg a blow to gay upl and activists seekg greater rights for the LGBTQ muny. The lg of the Osaka urt dashed the hop of gay rights activists who are prsurg the ernment to rethk s opposn to same-sex marriage. Japan, where homosexualy has been legal sce 1880, is relatively liberal pared to some Asian natns.
For example, gay sex remas illegal Sgapore spe growg lls to change the lonial-era law. India’s Supreme Court led 2018 that gay sex was no longer a crimal offense. And this month, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly.
"But there is still some way to if all district urts clare same-sex unns nstutnal, the legalisatn of same-sex marriag is not guaranteed, as current polil momentum to change the law is "lewarm at bt", acrdg to The Japan 's nstutn, put place after the end of World War Two, f marriage as one of "mutual nsent between both sex" ernment has said this means same-sex marriage was not "foreen" at the lawyers for the platiffs said the phrasg was actually meant to prevent forced marriag, and that there is nothg the nstutn that explicly prohibs gay urt Sapporo, the pal cy of the northern Japane island of Hokkaido, is the first to give s verdict, and s lg is seen as havg signifint impact on the other urts. Activists say nservative attus towards homosexualy rema, and many LGBTQ Japane still do not dare to e out to their iends and 2015, some ci have issued certifit for same-sex upl.
LE MARIAGE GAY VA ENF êTRE RENNU à TOKYO
Addnal reportg by Tsa might also be terted : As a gay Japane man, Kodo Nishimura, has found that Buddhism has accepted his ptn, Why this Buddhist monk also works as a make-up artistMore on this story. Lee/The New York TimTOKYO — Ikuo Sato stood ont of a Tokyo urt April and told the world he was gay.
His fay and -workers do not know he is gay, and he hop — at least for now — to keep that way, fearg discrimatn his uple’s story epomiz the ntradictns that shape the liv of gay people across Japan. Gay people face overwhelmg prsure to nform to the silent, stiflg norms of a society which many parents and workers are still unfortable wh the ia of their own children and lleagu beg gay. “The Japane people thk we should regnize same-sex marriage, ” said Taiga Ishikawa, who July beme the first openly gay man elected to the untry’s Parliament.
? TOUT SAVOIR SUR LE MARIAGE GAY FRAN JAPONAIS [GUIDE]
The survey, by the advertisg giant Dentsu, found that more than half of gay men and lbians Japan were ncerned about g out. In an terview wh Shcho 45, a nservative magaze, a lawmaker, M Suga, dismissed gay men and lbians as “unproductive” members of society who would not bear children. Suga speculated that regnizg same-sex marriage uld e Japan to llapse as fac a growg populatn remarks were wily publicized, raisg awarens of discrimatn agast gay people, said Alexanr Dmrenko, a Canadian lawyer and rint of Tokyo who has been a proment advote of same-sex marriage.
“It was like Japan’s Stonewall, ” he said, referrg to the 1969 police raid and followg protts that set off the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. “boom, ” Kazuya Kawaguchi, a soclogy profsor at Hiroshima Shudo Universy, poted to two televisn dramas featurg the liv of gay men — “Ossan’s Love” and “What Did You Eat Yterday? Four episos of “Queer Eye” were also set televisn dramas “improved people’s imprsns of gay upl, ” Mr.
”At the same time, attus have been changg among Japane pani as they have embraced gay nsumers and steadily creased their support for gay employe.
MARIAGE GAY AVEC UN JAPONAIS EN FRANCE POUR VIVRE JAPON ?
Sixty-seven anizatns have signed on to the statement, but so far only a handful have been Japane firms, cludg Panasonic and the buildg materials manufacturer domtic media verage of changg norms abroad has “ntributed to a huge amount of discsn here, very few people the Japane rporate workplace or fay suatns feel fortable g out, ” said Lrence Bat, 63, who beme one of the few openly gay directors of a major Japane pany last year when he was appoted to Panasonic’s board. As of October, only 617 upl had registered their partnerships, acrdg to Nijiiro Diversy, a nonprof that fights discrimatn agast gay people the workplace.
He expects that legalizatn of same-sex marriage will enurage his partner to exprs his sexualy beyond the gay muny and open up to his fay and lleagu.