Officials have reprimanded two Japanese ‘love hotels’ after they turned away same-sex couples. The incidents happened in Amagasaki in the southwest of the country on 5 May.
Two days later, one of the rejected customers reported it to the city. In response, officials visited the hotels and told the operators that they can not reject same-sex partners.
In 2018, Japan’s health ministry banned hotels and inns under hotel business law from refusing guests on the basis of their sexual orientation or