The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context

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The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese context

This article will examine the determinants of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) policy adoption in Shibuya, one of the twenty-three city wards of Tokyo, by taking an actor-specific approach to the first case of officially recognized same-sex partnership in Japan. How did the sexual mino...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Takao, Yasuo
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	University of British Columbia 2017
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50575

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