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 ...

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel worked on the issues of promoting the human rights of LGBT people and same-sex marriages when he was mayor of Chicago and a high-ranking Democratic Party member.

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 ...

Following the election of George W Bush in 2004, California Senator Dianne Feinstein knew who to blame. Or at least that was ...

Why I Adopted My Husband is a nonfiction manga about a gay couple in Japan choosing adoption because same-sex marriage isn't ...

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 ...

It was right here — in the shadow of Disneyland, near Richard Nixon’s birthplace and the Newport Beach Pier — that the ...

HONG KONG/TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - In Hong Kong's highest court, five judges are deliberating whether to recognise same-sex marriages conducted overseas. Their decision, expected later this year ...

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 ...

Rahm Emanuel is making trouble for the Biden administration. We can only guess at his agenda, but we miss a mayor willing to ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledges to begin outlining early next week the pillars of a new economic stimulus package that ...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Europe will be better prepared for a future Donald Trump presidency than it ...