SENDAI A same-sex couple here plans to ask a court to order city officials to accept their marriage registration form, calling for recognition of same-sex marriages.
The arrest of Lower House member Yoshitaka Ikeda was an “emergency measure” to prevent the lawmaker from further destroying evidence in a funding scandal that has rocked the Japanese political world, investigative sources said.
Several mayors of the three prefectures hardest hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami showed a reluctance to voice an opinion about the government s return to a reliance on nuclear power.
Little progress is being made to dispose of waste created after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant’s triple meltdown following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Nearly 60 percent of the mayors of 42 municipalities in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures oppose the planned discharge of accumulated water from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.