Japan's prime minister apologized to the LGBTQ community for remarks made by a former aide. The aide made a remark that he would not want to live next to an LGBTQ person.
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Former Kishida aide Masayoshi Arai's comments to reporters earlier this month that he wouldn’t want to live next to LGBTQ people and that citizens would flee Japan if same-sex marriages were allowed prompted renewed demands that the government adoptKishida said Arai's remark was"deemed unjust discrimination and was extremely inappropriate" and offered an apology to LGBTQ activists in person:"I apologize sincerely for making all of you here and many other people feel...
Activists are now urging the government to enact anti-discrimination legislation before Japan hosts a summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in May inis the only G-7 member that has not recognized same-sex marriage or enacted an anti-discrimination law for LGBTQ people.
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