Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, walks past Masayoshi Arai, a senior aide who was dismissed after making discriminatory remarks. (AP)
A poll by Japan’s Asahi newspaper in 2021 found that 65 percent of Japanese voters supported same-sex marriage, up from 41 percent in 2015.
However, Joe Takeda, a professor of human welfare studies at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, said most Japanese people who support same-sex marriage “don’t know (or don’t care) that Japan is the only G-7 country without same-sex marriage and don’t see lagging LGBTQ rights as a potential issue.”
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