LGBT theme program – “Work of LGBT” has been broadcasted at “Baribara”- barrie-free variety program of  E Tele (NHK education), as the first in a series “Sexual minorities”.  (For your information, the second round theme is “Double minority”) This program provides a way to show society how to recognize the mutual diversity, by hearing the stories from LGBT personal experiences. Some examples are “Job hunting after coming out is struggling”, “Repeatedly changing career due to discriminatory behavior in the workplace makes life so painful”.  The guest for this program was MTF transgender Ai Haruna. Ms. Maki Muraki – NPO Nijiiro
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On September 25th at Toshima parliament plenary session, Mr. Taiga Ishikawa – openly gay subdivision parliament revealed the reality that more than half of accommodations in Toshima wards are rejecting single bed room use of same-sex couples, and Toshima wards decided provide guidance for improvement. In Article 5 of the Hotel Business Law, it is forbidden to refuse the accommodation, except where there is a risk of illegal activities such as infectious disease patients and gambling. However, according to the survey for hotels and inns in Toshima wards by Taiga Ishikawa, 143 facilities in 45 properties refuse men staying together
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The culture magazine “Tokyo Graffiti” use LGBT couples as the main feature and use their colorful pictures for their cover page. “Tokyo Graffiti” featured LGBT couples in the past, in the LGBT feature issue entitled “Tokyo Rainbow Graffiti” on March 2015. The October issue is “LGBT COUPLES @ Shibuya – Gay, lesbian … etc. Shape of various love”. Total of 15 varieties of couples, such as famous gay couples on TV, a Writer/Drag queen & FTM DJ couple, a MTF & a Straight person couple, gay couples married in the United States, a lesbian couple working in the same workplace
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In Japan, Census is carried out through September to October. This year, the new thing is an online ID of the Census is delivered to each household. In order to grasp the reality of people’s lives, all of the people who live (including the people of foreign nationality) were surveyed in Japan, and counting the results will be reflected in government policy. Since its purpose is to respect privacy, each answer is not checked against the Basic Resident Register or family register. In a conventional Census, when a partner selects a same-sex partner for their answer in members of the
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The September 14th, 2015 issue of “AERA”, a news magazine in Japan, (Asahi Shimbun published) published a 10 page special called “The future is clear after meeting you – LGBT”.  The eyes are drawn to the rainbow colored letter A in the “AERA” logo on the cover. In the contents of “My future is clear after meeting you” various couples are introduced such as a lesbian couple who married at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government 45th floor observation room, Mr. Walter & Mr. Inatsugi who work for Goldman Sachs, Ms. Arita Rika & Sara (happy photo with their child) who work
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The cover of the August 24th, 2015 issue of Nikkei Business was colored in the rainbow, and the character of “LGBT” was dance. The main feature title was “Ultimate diversity LGBT- Your company cannot ignore.” It was a great feature total of 22 pages. This is the second LGBT feature since 2007. “Nikkei Business” August 24 issue, 2015 “Ultimate diversity LGBT” Table of contents Page 26: Two of the reality that you do not know Page 28: Basic knowledge of LGBT Page 30: Chain reaction began Shibuya, Tokyo – October Revolution “Anguish for 10 million people – If left for
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On August 20, 2015, editorial that “the legislation examined protect sexual minorities human rights” was published in the Mainichi Shimbun. Sexual minorities are facd with various difficulties in society such as receiving discriminatory treatment of workplace, bullied at school, and it cause the high suicide rate because of not being consulted with familiar people.  In such a situation, they ask  the government to enact the legislation for the purpose of such discrimination resolved The United Nations also works on the countries to eliminate discrimination and violence against sexual minorities. At National Assembly in this year, bipartisan lawmakers Federation to consider
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As of August 4th, Oak Lawn Marketing (Headquarter in Nagoya, Japan. Under the umbrella company of NTT DOCOMO) – maker of the television shopping program Shop Japan – announced that employees who have same-sex partners will be given a marriage cash contribution and six days marriage leave if they have a public certificate issued by a certain institution. This company’s regulation materialized after Shibuya-ku, Tokyo,  announced to issue certificates to same-sex couples when employees brought up the topic of equality for sexual minorities (LGBT) in their company. This company employs 480 people, and most of them are working in Tokyo.
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As of July 29th, Setagaya wards in Tokyo reported the outline proposal for public documents acknowledgment of same-sex couples. Although a specific effect of the documents issued by the district are not specified in the outline proposal, same-sex couples are likely to be treated similar to spouses of the opposite sex marriage in the context of such visitation at the time of emergency in a hospital and rental housing tenants, etc…  It is expected to precede the elimination of prejudice and detriment to sexual minorities (LGBT).  Setagaya Wards plan to issue the documents to the prospect in November 2015. According
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As of July 18th, KDDI announced family discounts for mobile phones, home phones, and internet will be applied to same-sex couples who have a public certificate issued by certain institutions such as Shibuya. Previously, they only accepted documents that prove a family (such as a resident card), and same-sex couples were an exception. However, after Shibuya-ku, Tokyo acknowledged same-sex couples as “relationship corresponding to marriage”, and worldwide debate over the advocacy of sexual minorities became active, these two corporations decided to come up with this policy. They, of course, offer this service to people who will have similar certificates in
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