urges Japan to join other Group of Seven nations in legally protecting LGBT people. He calls on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to take a step forward and make Japan a country worthy of membership in ...

Even the relatively conservative Japanese media have started talking about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. In this series we talk to LGBT individuals, researchers, and others ...

Gay couples hailed Tokyo’s new partnership system as a victory for Japan’s LGBT community on Nov. 1, the day the metropolitan government began issuing certificates to officially recognize the ...

The Hawai’i Tourism Authority said LGBT travel to Hawaii can be up to 6 percent of total visitors from both Japan and Canada, up to 7 percent of visitors from the West Coast and up to 9 percent ...

He spoke to the students and answered their questions about the challenge of being LGBT in Japan. One student asked Suto about the time he recognized that he is gay. Another student asked him what ...

LGBT people still struggle in Japan Japan has no law protecting people from discrimination based on sexual orientation. Nor does the country recognize same-sex marriage.

Japan is the only member of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations that does not have LGTBQ legal protections. Japan, as this year's G-7 host, has been under pressure to bring its ...