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    Der Oberste Gerichtshof von Tokio erklärt Japans Verbot der gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehe für verfassungsgemäß

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    2. Nicholie on

      Personally speaking there’s not a role in any government for marriage. I understand be need for legal assignment of certain duties, rights, obligations, and benefactors but im not too sure what sex has to do with that.

    5. senseiman on

      For context five high courts – including the exact same Tokyo High Court (different presiding judges) – have reached the opposite conclusion on this question in the past 12 months. This is the only high court judgment that has found it constitutional.

      These are all headed to the Supreme Court which will have the final say on the matter.

    7. InBetweenSeen on

      Did this swap over from the west? I know we have a wrong view what „homosexuality was accepted“ meant in Japan as people were still expected to enter a straight marriage and have children in the end, but I also never really heard of this being a political topic.

    8. Rattbaxx on

      Japan’s conservative stance on same-sex marriage, despite its non-Christian heritage, is less surprising when you look at the **logic** driving traditional opposition. In Christian theology, the objection to homosexual acts is not merely about denying pleasure, but about sex being tied to procreation, which is the basis of marriage/family unit. Japan, without theology, arrives at a similar conclusion: it defines marriage and family primarily by the natural direction toward reproduction. This suggests that the *secular* Japanese definition of marriage serves the same procreative function that the *theological* definition enforces, resulting in an identical outcome regarding same-sex unions.

      The more subtle difference in Japan’s rationale actually makes the barrier to same-sex unions seem even more difficult.

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