https://www.scmp.com/rss/515958/feed Sabine Frühstück is a professor of modern Japanese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Japan has passed legislation aimed at “promoting the understanding” of members of the LGBTQ community – a watered-down bill that will do little to put the Asian country in line with fellow liberal democracies on the issue. As many reports of the bill’s passage on June 16 have noted, Japan lags far behind other G7 countries when it comes to the legal protection of sexual minorities. There has been less discussion of how the limits of the new law – and the prolonged battle to get it passed –... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3224593/does-japans-watered-down-lgbtq-bill-reveal-how-lawmakers-lag-society-and-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3224593/does-japans-watered-down-lgbtq-bill-reveal-how-lawmakers-lag-society-and-history?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:00:17 +0000