{"id":32427,"date":"2021-05-25T00:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/24\/japan-ruling-party-accused-of-violating-olympic-charter-over-lgbt-rights"},"modified":"2021-05-25T00:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:10:34","slug":"japans-ruling-party-accused-of-violating-olympic-charter-over-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32427","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s ruling party accused of violating Olympic charter over LGBT rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups said LDP deserved \u2018gold medal for homophobia\u2019 after comments over discrimination bill<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s ruling party has been accused of violating the Olympic charter after it failed to approve a bill to protect the rights of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/lgbt-rights\">LGBT<\/a> community, during discussions marred by homophobic outbursts from conservative MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Closed meetings held this month to discuss a bill, proposed by opposition parties, stating that discrimination against LGBT people \u201cmust not be tolerated\u201d ended without agreement after some Liberal Democratic party (LDP) MPs said the rights of sexual minorities had \u201cgone too far\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/24\/japan-ruling-party-accused-of-violating-olympic-charter-over-lgbt-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights groups said LDP deserved \u2018gold medal for homophobia\u2019 after comments over discrimination billJapan\u2019s ruling party has been accused of violating the Olympic charter after it failed to approve a bill to protect the rights of the LGBT community, dur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,53,88,86,72,342,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-japan","category-law","category-lgbt-rights","category-olympic-games","category-sport","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\/32427","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32428,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions\/32428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}