People attend the annual Tokyo Rainbow Parade in Tokyo, Japan on 6 May 2018, to show support for members of the LGBT community. (Photo by MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images)
A government official in the Mie prefecture of Japan has doxed a same-sex couple on his blog and refuses to delete their personal information from his webpage.
Takatora Kobayashi, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party on the Mie Prefectural Assembly, revealed the names and postal addresses of a local same-sex couple on his blog, according to
Kyodo News. Kobayashi shared the names and address of the couple – Masahiro Shimada and Katsunori Kano – after they sent the assemblyman a letter of inquiry about an LGBT+ partnership programme in Mie.