Japan: Same-sex couples face resistance to adoption

Ai Takahashi says she has always wanted to have a child but Japan’s “traditional” attitudes towards the family and only incremental acceptance of equal rights for the nation’s LGBTQ+ community means she is losing hope that she might one day be a parent.

That same-sex couples in Japan find it effectively impossible to adopt, she believes, is a pity for the thousands of youngsters waiting in children’s homes across Japan for a foster family or adoptive parents.

“I have always wanted to have…