article_snippet.sent: While outright discrimination against the LGBT community is rare in Japan, outright discrimination against the LGBT community is rare in Japan effects can be hidden and gay people often find themselves at a disadvantage.
article_snippet.sent: A recent poll found that a slight majority at 52.4% oppose gay marriage, but support amongst young adults in their 20s and 30s is as high as 70%.
article_snippet.sent: Only traditional marriages are recognized under Japan's constitution, but the wording is vague enough to open Japan's constitution to interpretation, according to Miura.
article_snippet.sent: Japan's constitution does not rule out same-sex marriage, so an interpretation can be made that Japan's constitution is constitutional," Miura told Bloomberg Business.
article_snippet.sent: While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party "don't like the idea of same-sex marriage, but at the same time the issue is gaining momentum.
article_snippet.sent: Conservative groups were vocal in Conservative groups opposition, with one, known as the Network Pushing for Normalization of Education, telling the Japan Times that granting same-sex couples the same rights as all other Japanese citizens would degrade the "familial system and practice that heterosexual unions have long preserved in human history.
highlights_snippet.sent: Recent poll finds most young Japanese open to the idea of gay marriage .