Critics say LGBTQ couples still face disadvantages in areas such as taxation even under such partnership arrangements
The Tokyo Metropolitan government will start a system that effectively allows same-sex marriage in Japan’s capital in the next fiscal year from April, Japan’s Kyodo news wire reported Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike as saying on Tuesday.
The local government for the city with a population of 14 million plans to introduce «same-sex partnership» after its local assembly unanimously called for such a move, Kyodo said according to telegraphindia.com
