Value Changes and Recent Evolutions of Morality Politics - Comparative Analysis of Europe and Japan

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The research activities conducted so far consisted of reading the most recent publications on the three morality issues investigated by the project (e.g. same-sex marriage, abortion, and assisted reproductive technologies), with specific attention to the Japanese scholarship, and collecting material. However, I focused on same-sex marriage as this question has received much attention from the Japanese public opinion, scholarly community, and international press. I collected policy papers, studied court rulings, attended public debates about same-sex marriage, and interviewed over 15 LGBTQ activists, lawyers involved in same-sex marriage litigations, and Japanese national lawmakers and local administrators. I started to write two working papers that would be completed in the next three months.