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Japanese high court rules same-sex marriage ban is uncostitutional - UPI.com

Dec 13, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Japan currently does not permit same-sex marriage or offer any legal protection or recognition for LGBTQ couples, making it the only member of the Group of Seven nations in that regard.
44% : Friday's ruling by the Fukuoka High Court found Japanese civil laws currently in place that prohibit marriage and recognition of same-sex couples, violate parts of the constitution that guarantee equality of both sexes.
44% : "There is no longer any reason to not legally recognize marriage between same-sex couples," Presiding Judge Takeshi Okada said Friday following the ruling.
35% : This past March, the Sapporo High Court upheld a 2021 lower court decision that found that a lack of protection for same-sex marriages violated the Constitution of Japan.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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