New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used a visit to Japan this week to call for the country to legalise same-sex marriage, after a top official in the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party was caught earlier this month making hateful remarks about LGBT+ couples during an off-the-record briefing.
"There was a member of the Japanese administration that was caught in off-the-record comments making very discriminatory statements about LGBT people,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez said in a video posted on Instagram.
