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Drawing on the assembly-minutes dataset built at the machikarte Lab — which contains over one million speech records as of 2024 — this article aggregates speeches mentioning 'LGBTQ,' 'partnership ordinance,' or 'sexual minority' by year and prefecture from 2018 to 2024. The legislative trajectory of the Act for the Promotion of Public Understanding of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (enacted June 2023) coincides with a sharp rise in assembly mentions after 2021; by 2024, annual mention counts are several times their 2018 level. Prefectures that were early adopters of local partnership-recognition schemes show markedly higher mention density.
