{"id":40728,"date":"2019-09-04T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40728"},"modified":"2019-09-04T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:22:19","slug":"trans-woman-given-long-term-visa-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40728","title":{"rendered":"Trans woman given long-term visa in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Tokyo (CNN)<\/cite>A Southeast Asian woman has become the first transgender person to receive a long-term residential permit in Japan, according to her lawyer. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 58-year-old woman, who has not disclosed her name and nationality, had been living in Japan illegally for 26 years &#8212; and living with a partner since 2002.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">However same-sex marriage is not legal in Japan, and transgender people are rarely recognized as such.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo (CNN)A Southeast Asian woman has become the first transgender person to receive a long-term residential permit in Japan, according to her lawyer. The 58-year-old woman, who has not disclosed her name and nationality, had been living in Japan illegally for 26 years &#8212; and living with a partner since 2002.However same-sex marriage is not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}