{"id":11407,"date":"2018-11-30T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=11407"},"modified":"2018-11-30T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:20:19","slug":"japans-opposition-party-prepares-lgbti-anti-discrimination-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/japans-opposition-party-prepares-lgbti-anti-discrimination-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s opposition party prepares LGBTI anti-discrimination bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"external-datafeeditem\">Kathmandu (Pahichan) November 30 &#8211; The largest opposition party in Japan, the Constitutional Democracy Party (CDP) announced it would introduce LGBTI anti-discrimination legislation to the country\u2019s legislature.Japan currently has no nationwide protection for discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity. Although, in October, Tokyo enacted a city-wide anti-discrimination bill.<\/p>\n<p>CDP said the legislation would prohibit discriminatory treatment of sexual minorities by organizations and companies, according to a Kyodo news report in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>It would also mandate national and local governments to promote measures to eliminate discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>CDP invited other political parties to collaborate on the bill. What\u2019s more, the party plans to bring legislation to the legislative Diet in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to observers, the bill has little hope of passing. The ruling Liberal Democracy Party (LDP) holds a two-thirds majority in the Diet.<\/p>\n<p>In July, an LDP MP, Mio Sugita,\u00a0labelled the LGBTI community as \u2018unproductive\u2019 and \u2018low priority\u2019. The furore around her comments forced the magazine she wrote them in to be shut down permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo authorities drafted an anti-discrimination bill in advance of hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics. The city implemented it in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This act upholds the goal of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to make Tokyo a city that upholds the human rights values of banning any sort of discrimination as stated in the Olympic Charter\u2019, the law states.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo authorities drafted the bill in advance of hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In July this year, Tokyo also announced it would provide shelter and housing to homeless LGBTI people.<\/p>\n<p>Source : Gay Star News<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) November 30 &#8211; The largest opposition party in Japan, the Constitutional Democracy Party (CDP) announced it would introduce LGBTI anti-discrimination legislation to the country\u2019s legislature.Japan currently has no nationwide protection for discrimination based on sexuality or gender identity. Although, in October, Tokyo enacted a city-wide anti-discrimination bill.<br \/>\nCDP said the legislation would prohibit discriminatory treatment of sexual minorities by organizations and companies, according to a Kyodo news report in Japanese.<br \/>\nIt would also mandate national and local governments to promote measures to eliminate discrimination.<br \/>\nCDP invited other political parties to collaborate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,621,490,11],"tags":[502],"class_list":["post-11407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-lgbti"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11411,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions\/11411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}