Japan's largest LGBT Pride was held this year in Tokyo during their Golden Week, to a record number of attendees and supporters. As this year's event, 37 organizations (which included companies and embassies) joined to celebrate the seventh annual event, and over 7,000 attendees participated in the march.

The Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2018 was held in the Shibuya and Harajuku districts of central Tokyo. Attendees displayed with the various signs that bolstered for equality, while floats decorated with pro-LGBT slogans accompanied participants, who carried their own signs. The theme for this year's event was fitting "love and equality," which many of the attendees embodied in their signs as well. As organizers said to PinkNews: "Everyone is equal in love. We seek no special rights, but the same thing, the same way. The freedom to love. That basic freedom is what we want to achieve."

Even local lawmakers, from both ruling and opposing parties, were also in attendance. The significance of the event echoed from those that attended. As Kanako Otsuji, who is openly gay, remarked: "I was happy to walk alongside lots of friends today. But we must also work toward developing LGBT-friendly laws."

This Pride event closed off a nine-day celebration of LGBT equality throughout Tokyo, where over 7,000 people participated in the festival.