In 2011, Taiga Ishikawa became the first openly gay man elected to office in Japan, winning a seat in the local assembly of Toshima Ward. [114] He came out publicly in his book Where Is My Boyfriend (2002), and started a non-profit organization that sponsors social events for gay men in Japan. At the 2019 House of Councillors election, Ishikawa won a seat in the House of Councillors as a member of the CDP, the first openly gay man to do so. [115] [116] After his election, he vowed to legalize same-sex marriage and enact anti-discrimination laws within the six years of his term. [117] [118] [119] Companies in Japan consisting of ten or more employees are required to establish work regulations. In January 2018, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare revised the Model Rules of Employment (モデル就業規則) [e] which "stands as the example framework for work regulations", to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and "gender identification". [64] Article 15 reads: [72] Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. As of 2021, sexual orientation and gender identity are not protected by national civil rights laws, which means that LGBT Japanese have few legal recourses when faced with discrimination in such areas as employment, education, housing, health care and banking. [53] According to a 2018 Dentsu Diversity Lab survey, more than 65% of questioned LGBT people said they had not come out to anyone at work or home. [54]

In April 2017, Osaka officially recognised a same-sex couple as foster parents, making it the first such case in Japan. [50] In February 2015, the ward of Shibuya (in Tokyo) announced plans to establish a partnership system that would recognize same-sex couples for situations such as hospital visits and shared renting of apartments. This procedure allows couples to get a "proof of partnership" paper, which does not have any weight under Japanese law but can help in, for instance, getting access to a partner who is ill and in hospital but institutions are under no legal obligation to respect the certificates. [36] The Shibuya system is considered a significant step towards lesbian and gay partnership rights in Japan. [37] In July 2015, Tokyo's Setagaya ward announced that it would be joining Shibuya in recognizing same-sex partnerships from November of the same year. [38] Since then, 100 municipalities have begun issuing partnership certificates, including highly-populated Yokohama, Osaka, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Kawasaki, Saitama and Hiroshima, [39] as well as ten prefectures, including Ibaraki, Osaka, Gunma, [40] [41] Saga and Mie.

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In 2023, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of the Liberal Democratic Party met with LGBT groups in the Prime Minister's Official Residence and apologized for comments made by his former aide, Masayoshi Arai, based on homophobia and anti- same-sex marriage. [130] Summary table [ edit ] Same-sex sexual activity legal Japan court finds same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional". BBC News. 17 March 2021 . Retrieved 18 March 2021. Kampf um das soziale Ordnungsgefüge - Webcat Plus". Webcatplus.nii.ac.jp (in Japanese) . Retrieved 21 July 2017. Glauert, Rik (26 June 2019). "Japan's ruling party reveals draft 'LGBT understanding' bill". Gay Star News. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019 . Retrieved 16 August 2019.In March 2019, legislation banning discrimination against "sexual minorities" was passed in Ibaraki Prefecture. [67] [68]

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