{"id":23024,"date":"2020-09-23T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/23\/japan-is-a-democracy-without-women-says-ruling-party-mp"},"modified":"2020-09-23T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:02:52","slug":"japan-is-a-democracy-without-women-says-ruling-party-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23024","title":{"rendered":"Japan is a &#8216;democracy without women&#8217;, says ruling party MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomomi Inada makes comment after new prime minister appoints just two women on 21-strong cabinet<\/p>\n<p>A prominent member of Japan\u2019s ruling party has described the country\u2019s politics as \u201cdemocracy without women\u201d, days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/16\/yoshihide-suga-shinzo-abe-defends-legacy-stands-down-japan-prime-minister\">new prime minister<\/a> appointed just two female MPs to his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Tomomi Inada, a former defence minister from the governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP), added her voice to criticism of Japan\u2019s poor record on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gender\">gender<\/a> equality, directing most of her anger at her own party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/23\/japan-is-a-democracy-without-women-says-ruling-party-mp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomomi Inada makes comment after new prime minister appoints just two women on 21-strong cabinetA prominent member of Japan\u2019s ruling party has described the country\u2019s politics as \u201cdemocracy without women\u201d, days after the new prime minister appointed ju&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,646,88,4,704,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-japan","category-politics","category-women-in-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23025,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions\/23025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}