![]() Taggart Murphy, contends that the way LGBT issues are discussed and understood represents an effort – only partly successful – to impose an American conceptual framework on a cultural and historical tradition in Japan that differed radically from that in the United States. But no politician in Japan of right or left has ever made political hay out of such issues as gay marriage or trans rights that have become standard culture war fodder in the US. While there may have been some “progress,” same sex marriage is still legally prohibited and self-identified LGBT people face both institutional and cultural hurdles that their counterparts do not in places such as the United States, Britain, and Taiwan. ![]() Conventional wisdom sees Japan as a laggard in the struggle for LGBT rights. ![]()
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