{"id":38391,"date":"2021-10-27T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/27\/being-a-woman-in-japanese-politics"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:07:52","slug":"it-is-bullying-pure-and-simple-being-a-woman-in-japanese-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38391","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It is bullying, pure and simple\u2019: being a woman in Japanese politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harassment is common for women who run for office and female MPs comprise just 9.9% of lower house<\/p>\n<p>Mari Yasuda has come to dread checking her social media accounts. While a TV programme has tipped the candidate as \u201cone to watch\u201d in Japan\u2019s general election this month, her anonymous correspondents make no secret of their belief that, as a woman, she should not be standing for parliament at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey accuse me of sleeping with powerful men to get ahead or make abusive comments in calls to our office,\u201d says Yasuda, who is contesting a seat in Hyogo prefecture for the opposition Constitutional Democratic party of Japan. \u201cI receive emails from men remarking on my appearance or asking me for a date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/27\/being-a-woman-in-japanese-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harassment is common for women who run for office and female MPs comprise just 9.9% of lower houseMari Yasuda has come to dread checking her social media accounts. While a TV programme has tipped the candidate as \u201cone to watch\u201d in Japan\u2019s general elect&#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":[41,88,78,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-women","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\/38391","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=38391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38392,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions\/38392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}