{"id":10993,"date":"2021-04-06T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T02:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T02:37:27","slug":"open-lecture-from-thelaw-and-society-as-it-relates-to-lgbt-a-course-endowed-by-the-wsc-members-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/news\/2021\/04\/06\/10993\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lecture from the\u201cLaw and Society as it Relates to LGBT\u201d, a course endowed by the WSC Members Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the topic of \u201cThe Significance and Prospects of Local Government Partnership Ordinances,\u201d this open lecture was conducted online on Nov. 17, 2020. Minori Tokieda, the Representative of RainbowTokyo Kita-ku, discussed the state of partnership systems, shared her experiences submitting appeals and petitions to local government, and explained why the proliferation of such partnerships is important. Naosuke Fujita, the Co-Representative of the Lawyers Network for LGBT &amp; Allies, touched upon the\u00a0 severe situation in Japan from his perspective as a lawyer, explaining that \u201ceven if you obtain a partnership certificate, you are not fundamentally given the legal guarantees of a married couple,\u201d and emphasized the need for governments and the private sector to respond and make adjustments.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2020wsc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2020wsc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Q&amp;A Session via Zoom Webinar (Top: (From Left) Fujita, moderator and coordinator Professor Kyoko Ishida (Faculty of Law), Lecturer Noriko Hashiba (Global Education Center); Bottom: Tokieda)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the topic of \u201cThe Significance and Prospects of Local Government Partnership Ordinances,\u201d this open l [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10996,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions\/10996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}