A Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization launched a smartphone app on Thursday to issue digital partnership certificates for same-sex couples that will be accepted by a network of cooperating firms.The certificates, created by Famiee Project, aim to help LGBT couples receive important spousal and familial benefits, such as life insurance and landowners' permission to live together, that would otherwise not be easily available to them in a country where same-sex marriage is not legally recognized.So far, around 40 companies and groups including Japan Airlines Co. and Mizuho Financial Group…READ FULL ARTICLE