U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has "full confidence" Japan will ban LGBTQ discrimination
Japan signed a G-7 summit communique in June which called for "full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in all their diversity as well as LGBTIQ+ persons in politics, economics, education and all other spheres of society."
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday said he has "full confidence" that the Japanese government will take the necessary steps to ban discrimination against LGBTQ people.
Sexual minorities have
been campaigning for the government to adopt an anti-discrimination law
after an aide to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters he
wouldn't want to live next to LGBTQ people and that citizens would flee
Japan if same-sex marriages were allowed. Kishida quickly fired the
aide, Masayoshi Arai. ---More...
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