The 2016 Tokyo Rainbow Pride (TRP) march was held on May 8th and with other events all weekend long celebrating sexual minorities. On the Sunday some 5,000 LGBT people and supporters walked between Harajuku and Shibuya, accompanied by 18 floats -- the most ever in the history of TRP. The event was centered on Yoyogi Park in Shibuya ward, which has established itself as a gay-friendly neighborhood after it became the first government in Japan to offer some sort of legal recognition of same-sex couples. The revellers were joined by Caroline Kennedy, US ambassador to Japan, along with ...

7.6% of people in Japan are gay, lesbian or have gender identity disorder. That's according to a Dentsu survey published in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper on April 24th (and that's also the sway they word the "groupings" too). It equates to 1 in 13 people. The results were released on April 23rd. They were conducted on around 70,000 adults in Japan through an online questionnaire. A similar survey in 2012 found that 5.2% of people, or 1 in 19 people, identified as LGBT. The new survey was conducted on April 7th and April 8th with 69,989 people aged 20-59 across Japan. However, ...