{"id":47219,"date":"2022-08-08T09:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T00:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/we-are-so-far-behind-japan-laments-lack-of-progress-on-same-sex-marriage"},"modified":"2022-08-08T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T00:47:32","slug":"we-are-so-far-behind-japan-laments-lack-of-progress-on-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47219","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are so far behind\u2019: Japan laments lack of progress on same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates hope upcoming ruling in Tokyo district court will help spur progress on issue that already has public backing<\/p>\n<p>Barely a year has passed since the Tokyo Olympics were promoted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/jul\/30\/rainbow-olympics-tokyo-hailed-turning-point-lgbtq-athletes\">celebration of diversity<\/a>. In June, the Japanese capital became the latest city to recognise same-sex partnerships, and recent upper house elections featured a record four candidates from the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Japan\u2019s official resistance to same-sex unions is as fierce as ever.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/we-are-so-far-behind-japan-laments-lack-of-progress-on-same-sex-marriage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates hope upcoming ruling in Tokyo district court will help spur progress on issue that already has public backingBarely a year has passed since the Tokyo Olympics were promoted as a celebration of diversity. In June, the Japanese capital became t&#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":[88,2729,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-lgbtq-rights","category-marriage"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47219","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=47219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47220,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47219\/revisions\/47220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}