By SHINICHI CHUBACHI/ Staff Writer
June 10, 2021 at 07:10 JST
Gareth Thomas, left, a former captain of the Welsh national rugby team, who in 2009 was the first active professional rugby player to come out as gay, with Mayumi Taniguchi, center, a Japan Rugby Football Union board member, and Gon Matsunaka, president of Pride House Tokyo, in 2019. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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