Over the past year and a half or so, Japan has held three national elections, and after each result a familiar postmortem has circulated among both liberals and conservatives who lost seats: "We lost because we raised the importance of diversity," and "We should have prioritized economic issues directly tied to people's lives instead."To the author, who works to eliminate discrimination related to sexual and gender diversity and to secure legal protections for the rights of sexual and gender minorities, such claims sound profoundly off the mark. More than the electoral fortunes of any party…READ FULL ARTICLE
