{"id":1160987,"date":"2023-07-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2023\/07\/japans-lgbtq-community-battles-tradition-and-ultraconservative-politics\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T12:00:00","slug":"japans-lgbtq-community-battles-tradition-and-ultraconservative-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/28\/japans-lgbtq-community-battles-tradition-and-ultraconservative-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s LGBTQ Community Battles Tradition and Ultraconservative Politics\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"Securing legal protections for sexual minorities is agonizingly slow in a country playing catch-up.\n