{"id":46115,"date":"2022-07-07T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T05:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/07\/from-get-married-to-getting-elected-women-a-record-one-third-of-candidates-in-japan-poll"},"modified":"2022-07-07T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T05:09:45","slug":"from-get-married-to-getting-elected-women-a-record-one-third-of-candidates-in-japan-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46115","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018get married\u2019 to getting elected \u2013 women a record one-third of candidates in Japan poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notoriously sexist, Japanese politics is being shaken up as parties increase female representation at upper house elections<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year ago, voters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> had to look very hard to find a woman\u2019s name on ballot papers for the lower house election. But as the country prepares to go to the polls again this weekend, they are comparatively spoiled for choice.<\/p>\n<p>About a third of the candidates in this Sunday\u2019s upper house election are women \u2013 the highest proportion since Japanese women won the right to vote and stand for parliament in 1946.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/07\/from-get-married-to-getting-elected-women-a-record-one-third-of-candidates-in-japan-poll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notoriously sexist, Japanese politics is being shaken up as parties increase female representation at upper house electionsLess than a year ago, voters in Japan had to look very hard to find a woman\u2019s name on ballot papers for the lower house election&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46115","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=46115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46116,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46115\/revisions\/46116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}