Japan’s prime minister fires aide over hateful remarks

On Saturday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida fired an aide who said he wouldn’t want to live next to lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender couples.

Masayoshi Arai, an economy and trade official who joined the prime minister’s staff as a secretary in October, also warned that people would flee Japan if same-sex marriage were permitted.

Arai added he wouldn’t even want to look at same-sex couples.

In remarks broadcast by NHK, PM Kishida called the comments “outrageous and completely incompatible with the administration’s policies.”

Later in the day, Kishida said he had dismissed Arai, who earlier apologized to the prime minister for what Arai characterized as “misleading” comments made last Friday.

The controversy comes after Kishida told Japan’s parliament that same-sex marriage should be…

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