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

到目前为止，开展的研究活动包括阅读关于该项目调查的三个道德问题(例如同性婚姻、堕胎和辅助生殖技术)的最新出版物，特别关注日本的学术研究，并收集材料。然而，我把重点放在同性婚姻上，因为这个问题受到了日本舆论、学术界和国际媒体的极大关注。我收集了政策文件，研究了法院裁决，参加了关于同性婚姻的公开辩论，并采访了超过15名LGBTQ活动人士、参与同性婚姻诉讼的律师以及日本国家立法者和地方行政人员。我开始写两份工作报告，将在接下来的三个月内完成。

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.