{"id":55830,"date":"2023-06-08T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/08\/japan-court-falls-short-of-calling-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional"},"modified":"2023-06-08T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:43:48","slug":"japan-court-falls-short-of-calling-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55830","title":{"rendered":"Japan court falls short of calling same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The complicated ruling from a court in Fukuoka comes after four other courts reached differing conclusions, and ahead of a parliamentary debate on the subject<\/p>\n<p>A court in Japan has ruled that the country\u2019s ban on same-sex marriage is \u201cin a state of unconstitutionality\u201d but fell short of stating it was unconstitutional \u2013 a decision that has clouded the debate over LGBTQ+ rights.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s ruling by the Fukuoka district court echoed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/tokyo-same-sex-marriage-ruling-step-forward-japan-campaigners\">2022 decision by a court in Tokyo<\/a> and is the fifth and final ruling awaited in Japan\u2019s district court system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/08\/japan-court-falls-short-of-calling-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complicated ruling from a court in Fukuoka comes after four other courts reached differing conclusions, and ahead of a parliamentary debate on the subjectA court in Japan has ruled that the country\u2019s ban on same-sex marriage is \u201cin a state of uncon&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-lgbtq-rights"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830","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=55830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830\/revisions\/55831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}