- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (6-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Niigata is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Niigata is unrecognized.
Since Sep 9, 2018
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Niigata is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Niigata is legal, but requires surgery.
Since Jan 2004
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Niigata is not legally recognized.
However, the city of Yokosuka recognizes the relationships of people of all genders, including "x-gender", the common term for non-binary in Japan.
LGBT discrimination in Niigata is illegal in some contexts.
Since 2023
LGBT employment discrimination in Niigata is varies by region.
LGBT housing discrimination in Niigata is no protections.
However, the Human Rights Committee report states that in reality, "municipalities decide who can rent public houses under the amended Public Housing Law and few municipal policies allow same-sex couples to qualify. Thus, in practice same-sex couples remain excluded from public housing."
Same-sex adoption in Niigata is ambiguous.
It was reported in 2016 that many same-sex couples have been rejected by public authorities and are told “Children will never be fostered” by same-sex couples and “couples of friends are not accepted.”
There is however one documented case from 2016 of same-sex foster parents in Osaka.
Serving openly in military in Niigata is legal.
Since May 3, 1947
Blood donations by MSMs in Niigata is banned (6-month deferral).
Since Apr 1, 2011
Conversion therapy in Niigata is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Niigata is equal.
Since May 3, 1947