From left, Yumiko Murakami, head of OECD Tokyo, Gon Matsunaka, head of Pride House Tokyo Legacy, Kanae Doi, Japan director of Human Rights Watch, Yuri Igarashi, co-representative director of the Japan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Olivier Fabre TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiga Ishikawa has an uphill battle in his bid to become Japan's only openly gay member of ...

The recently-concluded JATA Tourism Expo in Japan underlined the importance the Japanese government and tourism leaders put not only on outbound travel, but even more on making Japan a major inbound d ...

TOKYO – Japanese activists including seven parents of LGBT children submitted a petition with more than 25,000 signatures to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party on Friday, demanding that a lawmaker ...

When a young woman called Lynne realized she was bisexual, she says that it changed her world. “I became bisexual in my late 20’s,” the student writes on the website of Waseda University’s Gender and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Yumiko Murakami, head of OECD Tokyo, Gon Matsunaka, head of Pride House Tokyo Legacy, Kanae Doi, Japan director of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Sexual minority groups and human rights activists launched a petition on Thursday calling for an LGBT equality law in Japan in hopes that it can be enacted next year, when the country is ...