Evan Wolfson, one of the chief architects of a movement that helped win same-sex marriage equality in the United States, told a seminar in Tokyo on Tuesday that the time is ripe for Japan to move forward to achieve freedom to marry. Wolfson — the founder and president of the Freedom to Marry organization, who has fought for LGBTI rights for more than 30 years — saw positive signs in the results of a nationwide survey conducted in Japan last year in which 51 percent of respondents expressed support for same-sex marriage