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Suntory Sunbirds Osaka player Rui Takahashi (left) celebrates with his brother Ran after winning the SV. League Championship final at Ariake Arena in Tokyo in May 2025.
MORE SPORTS / Volleyball
Sep 29, 2026
Japanese volleyball player comes out as gay in rare case
Takahashi said his brother Ran, who is a hugely popular star with 91AV原创 national volleyball team, helped him come to terms with his sexuality.
A transgender man (right) with his wife in Tokyo on Sept. 18, as he seeks legal recognition as the father of a child conceived using an egg retrieved from him.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2026
Transgender man seeks recognition as father of biological child
The man, assigned female at birth, was legally recognized as male after the birth of the child, who was conceived using one of his eggs.
A participant attends the annual Pride Festival in Hanoi in September 2019. States seeking to stifle work that challenges imposed norms are clearly trying to suppress LGBTQ activism and the community's artistic expression.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2026
Art, surveillance and the politics of memory in Southeast Asia
Moral policing and repression across SE Asia increasingly target artists, especially queer and trans creators, threatening cultural expression.
LGBTQ activists march in a Pride parade despite a ban by local authorities in Ankara on June 20.
WORLD
Sep 13, 2026
Turkey cracks down on LGBTQ+ groups, blocks online accounts
Turkey launched an operation targeting LGBTQ+ associations, businesses and individuals over allegations including prostitution and obscene content.
A reveler holds a rainbow flag during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender culture in Tokyo in May 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 4, 2026
Japan should define DEI before writing it into law
Japan is adopting the language of DEI while its only working metric assumes the very biological definition that Western self-ID frameworks have spent a decade trying to displace.
Shingo Ota’s “Numakage Public Pool” is a bittersweet record of the waning days of a public space and community hub.
CULTURE / Film
Aug 28, 2026
‘Numakage Public Pool’ documents the demise of a third space
Shinga Ota’s “hybrid documentary” is a bittersweet lament for a community hub facing its final weeks.
Fever guard Sophie Cunningham reacts after a foul during a game against the Sky in Chicago on Aug. 8.
BASKETBALL
Aug 20, 2026
Outspoken Fever guard Sophie Cunningham says WNBA needs bold commissioner
Cunningham said the vision of WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert doesn’t mesh with moving the league forward.
Police officers with automatic weapons stand in an allotment complex in the western Spandau district of Berlin on Sunday in a garden area near the scene where the chief suspect in the previous nights' deadly attack near Berlin's Pride parade has been shot dead.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 27, 2026
Berlin Pride attack suspect killed by police after manhunt
The suspect was a known Islamic State sympathizer who’d attempted to join the organization in 2025.
Emergency personnel and police work near the scene where one person was killed and at least 16 injured after a car hit the crowd on the outskirts of the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in Berlin on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 26, 2026
German police hunt suspect after deadly car ramming near Berlin Gay Pride
The incident shattered what had been a day of celebration for hundreds of thousands attending one of Europe’s largest Pride events.
Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s “All Around Us” features Lily Franky (left) and Tae Kimura as a couple navigating the vicissitudes of marriage and life.
CULTURE / Film
Jul 24, 2026
‘Hush!’ and ‘All Around Us’: Masterpieces from a pioneering gay director
New 4K restorations of two films from the 2000s by Ryosuke Hashiguchi bring his masterful storytelling back to the silver screen.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that an agreement has been reached on the city's 2027 budget at City Hall on June 30.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2026
Mamdani’s American dream
Something new has emerged with the rise of so-called democratic socialists in the United States.
LGBTQ+ supporters and advocates for freedom of assembly cross Elizabeth Bridge during the Budapest Pride March on June 27.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 14, 2026
What Budapest’s Pride march taught me about Japan
Marching is good. But the right to marry, to adopt, to be recorded as a family in the koseki would be great.
As these manga show, sexuality is only part of the story for many women who turn to lesbian sex services. Many seek healing, comfort and emotional relief, too.
CULTURE / Books
Jul 1, 2026
Manga and lesbian sex-work agencies team up to tell untold stories
Agencies and artists seek to present more nuanced depictions of their work and to challenge mainstream narratives that often emphasize scandal, eroticism or exploitation.
Alessandro Monteiro sits during the rehearsal of the play "Font Flip is Burning" ahead of its opening night in Mindelo, Cape Verde, on May 24.
WORLD / Society
Jun 29, 2026
Cape Verde, Africa’s outlier in LGBTQ+ tolerance
The archipelago is currently the most welcoming country in Africa for the LGBTQ+ community, ahead of South Africa, according to Equaldex.
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jun 29, 2026
91AV原创 fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
LGBTQ+ people in Japan face such limited fertility treatment options, they could ultimately be deprived of the right to safely start a family.
Haru Ono founded Nijiiro Kazoku in 2010 after forming a same-sex stepfamily. She said the impetus for founding the organization was that she couldn’t find much reliable information out there for families such as hers in Japan.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jun 28, 2026
LGBTQ+ families are building lives Japanese lawmakers still struggle to see
Japan does not offer same-sex couples the same legal rights and benefits granted to married couples.
Yo Katami found a permanent home for Loneliness Books in Higashinakano in August 2024, but still travels for book pop-ups at fairs and events in Japan and across Asia.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 28, 2026
How a private collection of queer books became a cultural hot spot
Since establishing a permanent location in Nakano Ward in 2024, Tokyo’s queer-focused bookstore Loneliness Books has become a hub of events and activities for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.
Gay pride flags fly alongside Seattle Sounders flags at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on June 29, 2019.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 26, 2026
FIFA will allow rainbow flags at Egypt vs. Iran match at World Cup
Both countries’ federations have stated objections to the so-called Pride Match.
People working in human resources departments participate in a workshop in Tokyo in January. The participants played a card game in which they took on roles of people with various disabilities.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jun 22, 2026
Japanese companies get serious about workplace DEI
Firms are stepping up their efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion in a bid to improve their management of human resources.
A new plan calls for collecting information on LGBTQ+-related initiatives, developing educational materials, and training counselors and local government officials.
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2026
Japanese government OKs basic plan to raise LGBTQ+ awareness
The plan calls for awareness-raising training programs and improved consultation systems, stating that unjust discrimination must not be tolerated.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.

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