“It is more important than ever to further heighten momentum toward constitutional revision,” Kishida said in the message on May 3, Japan’s Constitution Day. “A stance for revising parts ...

Japan's governing party is renewing its push ... binding measures because of constitutional limitations. In a message on Constitution Day on May 3, Suga said passage of the revised referendum ...

Staff member Beate Sirota Gordon, then in her early twenties, still remembers the day well ... and its presence in the constitution has had an enormous impact on Japan's postwar history.

Japan's constitution defines marriage as one between "both sexes". But a Sapporo court ruled that this denied the couples constitutionally-guaranteed equality, in what is seen as a symbolic ...