Pressure has been growing to legalise same-sex unions after several district courts ruled that a ban on them was ...
An aide to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who was sacked over a homophobic tirade said some Japanese people would “abandon” their country if same-sex marriage was legalized. Japanese people are ...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is not discriminatory, insisting that constitutional freedom of marriage only envisions heterosexual unions, a ...
Kaoru Sasaki, center, front row, heads to the Sapporo District Court on Sept. 11, 2023. (Kyodo) SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court ruled Monday that a person in a same-sex relationship is not ...
An openly gay assemblyman from Aichi Prefecture and his Taiwanese partner, having just registered their union in Taipei, called on Tokyo Monday to swiftly legalize same-sex marriage to ensure equality ...
Since then, Japan has introduced legislation prohibiting anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and in a landmark case this July, the Supreme Court ruled that a government ministry's refusal to allow a ...
Same-sex couples have access to a host of Social Security benefits that they couldn't receive before, but there are still many questions unanswered. Same-sex couples have access to a host of ...
Massachusetts was the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004. Thirty-four other states and the District of Columbia followed suit before same-sex marriage became legal under federal ...
The ruling by the city’s Court of Final Appeal stops short of recognizing same-sex marriage, but some experts see the outcome as a small step forward. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Hong Kong’s top ...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledges to begin outlining early next week the pillars of a new economic stimulus package that ...
Pew Research Center. (May 14, 2019). Share of adults in the United States who favor same-sex marriage from 2001 to 2019, by political party [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 30, 2023, from ...
The Sapporo District Court ruled on Monday that a person in a same-sex relationship is not entitled to spousal benefits provided to a person in marriage or in a common-law marital relationship ...
