Important - and worrying - insight into the situation in Myawaddy, on the Thai-Myanmar border, from Francesca Regalado for Nikkei Asia

15,000 paraded the streets of Shibuya yesterday for the 30th anniversary of Tokyo Rainbow Pride🌈
There were 314 sponsors, incl. Nomura, Nike & Amazon + many embassies.
Message was clear: Support for LGBTQ rights in Japan is strong, now it just needs laws to prove it

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Latest on #Johnnys sex abuse scandal:

2 more staff members abused boys; no criminal report from Smile Up

Victim compensation process remains opaque

Company doing little to curb online victim blaming

Roundup for Nikkei Asia

Props to Mobeen Azhar

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Exclusive Interview: PM Kishida says Japan, U.S., Philippines to cooperate in green energy and chips

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Spoke to Andy Park on ABC News's RN Drive radio show about Japan's growing movement to allow married couples to retain separate surnames. Current law requires couples to adopt the same name, and in 95% of cases it ends up being the husband's.

Think Name Project

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BREAKING: Taiwan hit by strong earthquake, triggering tsunami warning in Japan - Nikkei Asia
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Japan remains the only developed nation requiring married couples to have the same surname

By 2531, this will mean everyone in Japan has the surname ‘Sato,’ according to Think Name Project, a new initiative backed by over 30 businesses to raise awareness of the issue
#2531佐藤さん問題

Sakura spotting this morning - the magnolias are far more impressive than the cherry blossoms so far 🌸🌷

Big news out of Thailand 🏳️‍🌈
Francesca Regalado for Nikkei Asia

Japan’s tale of two economies: What the recent #BOJ rate hike, Nikkei stock boom & union wage raises mean (or do not mean…) for ordinary people & small businesses.

Mitsuru Obe, Chihiro Ishikawa & Lisa Kim for Nikkei Asia

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Spoke to Deputy PM Oliver Dowden in Tokyo about the importance of UK-Japan defense collaboration, safeguarding democracy, and how 'confident' he is that the Tories will win the next election 🇬🇧🇯🇵

Latest Nikkei Asia

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Table tennis star Ai Fukuhara says she's returned her son to her Taiwanese ex-husband, after he accused her of refusing to do so last year.
This comes as the Diet debates a landmark bill to introduce joint child custody after divorce.

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In an exchange with opposition MP 石川大我 Taiga Ishikawa🌈全国比例, PM Kishida says he believes gender identity “is not something someone can choose and change as they wish.”

He also says that “slander and unjust discrimination” against transgender individuals is unacceptable.

Historic day for Japan’s marriage equality campaign. Sapporo High Court ruled lack of same-sex unions unconstitutional on 3 clauses.

Tokyo court also found lack of marriage equality constitutionally problematic.

Details here via Nikkei Asia

#同性婚

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裁判所が違憲だと踏み込まず違憲状態としたのは残念ですが、違憲判断は5件目。
早く法律を変えて、結婚できるようにしてください。　岸田文雄
#東京2次0314 #結婚の自由をすべての人に #いざ傍聴

Breaking: Tokyo court rules Japan's lack of marriage equality at odds with constitution 🏳️‍🌈
Updates coming via Nikkei Asia

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