{"id":29845,"date":"2021-03-17T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/landmark-japan-court-ruling-says-not-allowing-same-sex-marriage-is-unconstitutional"},"modified":"2021-03-17T21:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:47:53","slug":"landmark-japan-court-ruling-says-not-allowing-same-sex-marriage-is-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29845","title":{"rendered":"Japanese court rules gay marriage ban is unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LGBT activists celebrate as landmark decision boosts campaign to legalise same-sex unions<\/p>\n<p>A court has given hope to the campaign to legalise gay marriage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> after it ruled that not allowing same-sex couples to wed is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is the only G7 nation not to fully recognise same-sex partnerships, while its constitution defines marriage as being based on \u201cthe mutual consent of both sexes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/17\/landmark-japan-court-ruling-says-not-allowing-same-sex-marriage-is-unconstitutional\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBT activists celebrate as landmark decision boosts campaign to legalise same-sex unionsA court has given hope to the campaign to legalise gay marriage in Japan after it ruled that not allowing same-sex couples to wed is unconstitutional.Japan is the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73,88,72,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-equal-marriage","category-japan","category-lgbt-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29859,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions\/29859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}