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"Nintendo issued an update on the company’s corporate social responsibility
(CSR) initiatives yesterday, and while this is normally a pretty stale kind of
thing to read through as a fan, this particular publication had one thing that
stood out.
As spotted by
Go Nintendo, in a section called Introduction of a Partnership
System, Nintendo announced that as of March 2021 the company has had a policy
whereby “same-sex partners” can enjoy the “same benefits as employees in an
opposite-sex marriage.”
That’s a big deal! While there have been attempts at both a national and
municipal level in recent years to change this, it was only a few weeks ago
that Japanese courts upheld a national ban on same-sex marriages, ruling them
unconstitutional. In a case held in Osaka, and decided on June 20, it was found
that “under the constitution the definition of marriage did not extend to
partnerships between people of the same gender.”"
Via Susan ****.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
