A member of Mie Prefectural Assembly revealed the names and postal address of a local same-sex couple on his blog without their consent and refused to delete the information, despite the prefecture working toward eliminating discrimination against LGBT individuals, Kyodo News learned Monday.
Takatora Kobayashi, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, repeatedly refused the couple's request to delete their address from his blog before finally doing so on Monday afternoon.
"I am deleting because I am causing trouble to people around me, as I heard that the secretariat of the prefectural assembly, the assembly's chairman and vice chairman are receiving phone calls," Kobayashi wrote on his blog.