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Fumio Kishida says official’s comments ‘outrageous and completely incompatible with administration’s policies’
The Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has sacked an aide who said he would not want to live next to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender couples and that people would flee Japan if same-sex marriage was permitted.
In remarks reported by local media, Masayoshi Arai, an economy and trade official who joined Kishida’s staff as a secretary in October, added he did not even want to look at same-sex couples.
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