On May 30, the Nagoya District Court became the second to rule against Japan’s banning of same-sex marriage, despite the country’s prime minister Fumio Kishida claiming the ban wasn’t discriminatory to the LGBTQ+ community. Currently, same-sex couples are only able to engage in civil unions – and even then, only in certain areas, such as Tokyo – with Japan’s constitution stating that marriage is between a man and a woman. Activists and supporters welcomed the decision outside the court, and Japan’s main opposition, the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), submitted a bill calling for same-sex marriage to be legalized. #LGBTQ+ Civil Rights