This week, courts in tokyo and sapporo ruled the nation's current ban was. Japan is the only group of seven nation without marriage equality, despite mounting pressure from a series of high court rulings in the last 16 months declaring this to be unconstitutional As of 2023, marriage equality movements have been gaining prominence within the nation This makes it the fifth high court in the country—following sapporo, tokyo, fukuoka, and nagoya—to strike down the ban as unconstitutional However, the court agreed with a prior ruling denying financial compensation to. The tokyo high court called the ongoing ban “a groundless legal discrimination based on sexual orientation,” saying it violates the constitutional guarantee of.
Robert nordström presents evidence from new survey. The decision, which echoes a similar ruling by the sapporo high court in march, marks a. Same‐sex marriage equality developments in japan june 2021 on 17 march 2021, a japanese district court ruled, for the first time in japan, that the national government’s failure to recognise same‐sex marriage is unconstitutional.
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