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Iga Mayor Receives Same-Sex Couple’s Marriage Filing, Pushes for Its Acceptance
On 4 August 2026 the Mayor of Iga City in Mie Prefecture personally received a marriage notification from a resident gay couple in the city. Mayor Toshinao Inamori said that…
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