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Japan recently broke from its G7 siblings and upheld its ban on same-sex marriage. 

The Tokyo court affirmed the nation's civil code limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. It was the first and only loss among six appeals brought by same-sex couples which had found parts of the current law unconstitutional. The recent decision creates a split the Supreme Court must now resolve.  

Judge Ayumi Higashi validated the current legal definition of marriage, which presumes a male/female pairing and that a family is a couple and their children.   

She rejected the claim that the ban on gay marriage violates Japan’s equality clause, holding that the distinctions between same-sex and opposite-sex couples do not amount to unconstitutional discrimination.

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In a Japanese hospital, a nurse holds a newborn.

In light of the demographic winter bearing down on every G7 nation, the Tokyo judge chose to protect and elevate the one relationship that has the potential to reverse it.  

Ten years ago, when our high court was debating Obergefell vs. Hodges, very few U.S. scholars were honest about the demographic cliff developed nations were approaching. Not so today.  

Like 70% of the world's countries, not one of the G7 Nations is above the 2.1 replacement fertility rate. The United States (1.62), Canada (1.61), France (1.66), Germany (1.42), Italy (1.2) and Japan (1.2) have all seen steep........

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