{"id":29582,"date":"2021-03-10T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/female-mp-awarded-japans-most-sexist-comment-after-casting-doubt-on-sexual-assaults"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T06:47:47","slug":"female-mp-awarded-japans-most-sexist-comment-after-casting-doubt-on-sexual-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29582","title":{"rendered":"Female MP awarded Japan\u2019s most sexist comment after casting doubt on sexual assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mio Sugita earns notoriety for accusations that women lie about sexual violence and LGBT community are \u2018unproductive\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Of all the candidates for Japan\u2019s most sexist comment of the year, there seemed to be only one possible winner \u2013 Yoshiro Mori, the former head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organising committee, who was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/feb\/12\/tokyo-olympics-chief-resigns-over-sexist-comments\">resign<\/a> last month after complaining that women \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/feb\/04\/tokyo-2020-chief-pressed-to-resign-after-saying-women-talked-too-much-at-meetings\">talked too much<\/a>\u201d during meetings.<\/p>\n<p>But even Mori was unable to compete with Mio Sugita, a conservative politician with a history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/03\/japanese-mp-mio-sugita-calls-lgbt-community-unproductive\">insulting<\/a> women and members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/lgbt-rights\">LGBT community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/female-mp-awarded-japans-most-sexist-comment-after-casting-doubt-on-sexual-assaults\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mio Sugita earns notoriety for accusations that women lie about sexual violence and LGBT community are \u2018unproductive\u2019Of all the candidates for Japan\u2019s most sexist comment of the year, there seemed to be only one possible winner \u2013 Yoshiro Mori, the form&#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":[88,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582","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=29582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29584,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions\/29584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}