Japan

Trans
Apr 12 2019

Japan elects first transgender assemblywoman

Shiho Shimoyamada plays for the German women's Bundesliga team Sv Meppen.

Sport
Mar 26 2019

Soccer player Shiho Shimoyamada comes out to inspire LGBT athletes

World
Mar 25 2019

Japan cancels deportation of gay Taiwanese man

Japan Japanese outing LGBT campaigners attend a Pride event in Tokyo, Japan where the first refugee has been accepted on ground of LGBT+ persecution

Current Affairs
Mar 20 2019

Human Rights Watch slams Japan’s ‘regressive’ sterilisation of trans people

Japanese actress Akane Sugimori (R) kisses her partner Ayaka Ichinose in a 2015 protest for marriage equality, for which 13 gay couples are now suing the government on Valentine's Day.

Current Affairs
Feb 14 2019

Gay couples file Valentine’s Day lawsuits for marriage equality in Japan

A Japanese same-sex couple in wedding attire takes part in the Tokyo Rainbow Pride Parade on May 6, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan

Current Affairs
Jan 29 2019

Japanese city of a million legally recognises same-sex couples

Karamo Brown, Bobby Berk, Antoni Porowski, Tan France and Jonathan Van Ness attend Netflix's Queer Eye Celebrates 4 Emmy Nominations with GLSEN at NeueHouse Hollywood on August 12, 2018

Culture
Jan 24 2019

Queer Eye is filming new episodes in Japan

People in Japan attend the annual Tokyo Rainbow Parade in Tokyo, on May 6, 2018, to show support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people

Current Affairs
Jan 24 2019

Japan’s Supreme Court rules transgender people still have to get sterilised

Lesbian couple Ai Nakajima—a Japan citizen—and her German partner Kristina Baumann got married in Germany in 2018

Current Affairs
Jan 17 2019

Lesbian couple to sue Japanese government for right to marry

Katsuei Hirasawa says the nation would collapse if everyone was LGBT+

Current Affairs
Jan 06 2019

Japanese lawmaker says nation ‘would collapse’ if everyone was LGBT

Lesbian couple Misato Kawasaki and Mayu Otaki, who live in Japan where there is no marriage equality for LGBT people

Current Affairs
Jan 04 2019

Japanese lesbian couple to ‘wed’ in all 26 countries with marriage equality

People attend the annual Tokyo Rainbow Parade in Tokyo, on May 6, 2018. (MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

World
Dec 29 2018

Ten same-sex couples to sue Japanese government over marriage equality

Super Seiya characters Andromeda Shun (left) and Andromeda Shaun (right)

Culture
Dec 18 2018

Netflix angers fans by changing queer man’s gender in Saint Seiya remake

Japanese lawmaker says nation would collapse if everyone was LGBT

Current Affairs
Oct 27 2018

Japanese MP who wrote anti-LGBT article finally addresses public uproar