From left, Yumiko Murakami, head of OECD Tokyo, Gon Matsunaka, head of Pride House Tokyo Legacy, Kanae Doi, Japan director of Human Rights Watch, Yuri Igarashi, co-representative director of the Japan ...

Sanae Takaichi has been elected as Japan’s first female Prime Minister, following an overwhelming vote in parliament. Her ...

Activists gather in front of parliament before they submit a petition in Tokyo Thursday, March 25, 2021. LGBTQ and other human rights activists submitted a petition with over 106,000 signatures to ...

The recently-concluded JATA Tourism Expo in Japan underlined the importance the Japanese government and tourism leaders put not only on outbound travel, but even more on making Japan a major inbound d ...

When a young woman called Lynne realized she was bisexual, she says that it changed her world. “I became bisexual in my late 20’s,” the student writes on the website of Waseda University’s Gender and ...

TOKYO – Japanese activists including seven parents of LGBT children submitted a petition with more than 25,000 signatures to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party on Friday, demanding that a lawmaker ...

TOKYO (Reuters) – When openly gay independent candidate Wataru Ishizaka campaigned for a 2007 Tokyo local election, people snickered at his speeches, but now even Japan’s conservative ruling party ...

(Tokyo) – The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG) should support LGBT nondiscrimination legislation to protect everyone in Japan from discrimination based on sexual ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Sexual minority groups and human rights activists launched a petition on Thursday calling for an LGBT equality law in Japan in hopes that it can be enacted next year, when the country is ...

TOKYO (AP) — Sexual minority groups and human rights activists launched a petition on Thursday calling for an LGBT equality law in Japan in hopes that it can be enacted next year, when the country is ...