{"id":52355,"date":"2023-02-05T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/04\/japan-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-fires-aide-lgbtq-same-sex-marriage"},"modified":"2023-02-05T00:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:18:47","slug":"japanese-prime-minister-fires-aide-over-anti-lgbtq-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52355","title":{"rendered":"Japanese prime minister fires aide over anti-LGBTQ+ remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida says official\u2019s comments \u2018outrageous and completely incompatible with policies\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has sacked an aide who said he would not want to live next to LGBTQ+ couples and that people would flee Japan if same-sex marriage was permitted.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks reported by local media, Masayoshi Arai, an economy and trade official who joined Kishida\u2019s staff as a secretary in October, said he did not even want to look at same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/04\/japan-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-fires-aide-lgbtq-same-sex-marriage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida says official\u2019s comments \u2018outrageous and completely incompatible with policies\u2019The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has sacked an aide who said he would not want to live next to LGBTQ+ couples and that people would flee Japan if sa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":604,"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":[41,88,2729,76,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-lgbtq-rights","category-marriage","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\/52355","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\/604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52356,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52355\/revisions\/52356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}