{"id":11433,"date":"2013-05-06T10:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2013-05-06T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T03:02:29","slug":"tangent-on-sexual-minorities-gay-marriage-trends-worldwide-and-japans-douseiaisha-do-it-donald-keenes-marriage-by-koseki-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11433","title":{"rendered":"Tangent on Sexual Minorities: Gay marriage trends worldwide, and how Japan’s Douseiaisha do it: Donald Keene’s marriage by Koseki adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Today I’d like to take readers on a bit of a tangent, as this blog tends to focus on minorities in Japan in terms of “race”, social, or national origin. \u00a0We don’t talk much about Sexual Minorities, such as the LGBT communities in Japan (particularly the Douseiaisha<\/em>, Japanese for Homosexuals), and how they are missing out on the wave of legalized gay marriage worldwide. \u00a0Consider this from The Economist:<\/p>\n

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Daily chart<\/strong>
\n Altared states<\/strong>
\n Apr 22nd 2013, 14:40 by Economist.com<\/strong>
\n http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2013\/04\/daily-chart-14?fsrc=scn\/fb\/wl\/dc\/altaredstate<\/a><\/strong>
\n More countries legalise gay marriage<\/strong><\/p>\n

TENS of thousands of people thronged the streets of Paris at the weekend to protest against a gay-marriage bill that is set for a second reading in the National Assembly on April 23rd. They are unlikely to stop its passage. The bill, which is an election pledge by the Socialist president, Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, was passed by a large majority at its first reading in February despite fierce opposition organised by conservative and Catholic groups. France is not the only country where gay marriage has been on the legislative or judicial agenda in recent weeks. On April 17th New Zealand became the 12th country to legalise gay marriage, though the law will not come into effect until August. Uruguay, too, has passed a similar bill that awaits the signature of the president before it becomes law. And in late March the American Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case on the constitutionality of the Defence of Marriage Act, which restricts marriage to a man and a woman. In all these countries\u2014and indeed in much of the West\u2014opinion polls show public support for same-sex marriages.<\/em><\/strong>
\nENDS
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Debito.org applauds this trend of legalizing gay marriage. \u00a0Meanwhile Japan, as you can see above, to its credit has no law criminalizing homosexuality. \u00a0It, however, does not permit gay marriages due to the vagaries of the Family Registry (Koseki) System<\/a>. \u00a0In short, only a wife and a husband by gender can create a married family unit.<\/p>\n

But as has been pointed out here on Debito.org before, people find ways to get around this. \u00a0Gay couples, in order to pass on inheritance rights, adopt each other into the same family unit on the Koseki. \u00a0The problem is for international couples that non-citizens cannot be listed on a Koseki as husband or wife.<\/p>\n

So here is how LGBT foreigners can get around it: \u00a0Naturalize and adopt. \u00a0As Debito.org previously suggested might be the case<\/a>, famous naturalized Japanese Donald Keene has done it, and recently gone public about it:<\/p>\n

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\nSports Nippon, April 30, 2013, courtesy of Mumei
\nhttp:\/\/www.sponichi.co.jp\/society\/news\/2013\/04\/30\/kiji\/K20130430005714360.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Congratuations, Don. \u00a0Seriously. \u00a0May you accomplish all the goals that remain before you in the years left to you. \u00a0My only requests, as I have made several times before, are that 1) you do not make a\u00a0pandering show of it as some kind of “solidarity with the Japanese” kinda thing<\/a>; and 2) you do not denigrate others<\/a> (i.e., NJ, by insinuating statistically incorrectly that NJ are less likely to be loyal to Japan (as “Flyjin”) or more likely to be criminals<\/a>). \u00a0Clearly the real reason you naturalized was a lot less selfless than you portray (which is fine, but let’s have a bit less public self-aggrandizing and self-hugging, please). \u00a0It is unbecoming of a person of your stature in Japan-related academia.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s the template for how you do it. \u00a0Gay NJ who wish to marry Japanese and get the same inheritance rights should naturalize and adopt one another. \u00a0Or else, barring naturalization, go overseas to a society more enlightened about Same-Sex Marriage and get married. \u00a0Bonne chance. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Economist: On April 17th New Zealand became the 12th country to legalise gay marriage, though the law will not come into effect until August. Uruguay, too, has passed a similar bill that awaits the signature of the president before it becomes law. And in late March the American Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case on the constitutionality of the Defence of Marriage Act, which restricts marriage to a man and a woman. In all these countries\u2014and indeed in much of the West\u2014opinion polls show public support for same-sex marriages.<\/p>\n

Debito.org applauds this trend of legalizing gay marriage. Meanwhile Japan, as you can see above, to its credit has no law criminalizing homosexuality. It, however, does not permit gay marriages due to the vagaries of the Family Registry (Koseki) System. In short, only a wife and a husband by gender can create a married family unit. But as has been pointed out here on Debito.org before, people find ways to get around this. Gay couples, in order to pass on inheritance rights, adopt each other into the same family unit on the Koseki. The problem is for international couples that non-citizens cannot be listed on a Koseki as husband or wife.<\/p>\n

So here is how LGBT foreigners can get around it: Naturalize and adopt. As Debito.org previously suggested might be the case, famous naturalized Japanese Donald Keene has done it, and recently gone public about it. Congratulations. He provides the template: Gay NJ who wish to marry Japanese and get the same inheritance rights should naturalize and adopt one another. Or else, barring naturalization, go overseas to a society more enlightened about Same-Sex Marriage and get married.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,12,56,46,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issue","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-nj-legacies","category-practical-advice","category-tangents","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}