More Japan businesses move to recognize same-sex couples

More Japan businesses move to recognize same-sex couples

Ken Hasebe, the mayor of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, calls on companies to implement steps to create an environment where sexual minorities can work comfortably in his speech at a seminar in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2015. The ward became Japan's first local government to issue certificates recognizing same-sex partnership as being equivalent to marriage a day earlier in a bid to eliminate discrimination against sexual minorities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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