Wedding Equality

Hiroshi and Philip Civil-Unionised under the NZ law

Philip Turner, a New Zealand citizen, and Hiroshi Ikeda, a Japanese citizen and NZ permanent resident, had lived together already more than 16 years.  We were bonded with Civil Union under the NZ law in December 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand.  Unfortunately, we cannot have any legal protection under the Japanese law, and Hiroshi is working with a group to make a partnership law happen in Japan.