Japanese non-binary person seeks family register change via court

A Japanese person who does not identify as male or female filed a petition with the Kyoto Family Court on Friday to change their family register designation to a gender-neutral descriptor, the person's lawyer said.The person in their 50s, who has been registered in Kyoto Prefecture since birth as "first-born daughter" of the household, now seeks to change the term to an expression such as "second child," the lawyer, Shun Nakaoka, said.The petitioner is suffering pain and disadvantage in life because the current register does not conform to their gender identity, and that this violates the C…READ FULL ARTICLE