{"id":46643,"date":"2022-07-21T18:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/21\/tokyo-wards-first-female-mayor-vows-to-take-on-japans-male-dominated-politics"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:09:40","slug":"dominated-by-old-men-tokyo-wards-first-female-mayor-takes-on-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46643","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dominated by old men\u2019: Tokyo ward\u2019s first female mayor takes on status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satoko Kishimoto sets sights on \u2018radical change\u2019 in Japan, where only 2% of local government leaders are women<\/p>\n<p>The first female mayor of a district in Tokyo has vowed to challenge Japan\u2019s male-dominated politics, weeks after she became one of only two women leading municipalities in the Japanese capital.<\/p>\n<p>Satoko Kishimoto was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/21\/tokyo-mayoral-win-a-huge-surprise-for-candidate-lately-arrived-from-belgium\">elected<\/a> mayor of Suginami ward last month to become the district\u2019s first female leader in its 90-year history. The progressive candidate beat the conservative incumbent \u2013 by just 187 votes \u2013 despite having recently returned to Japan after a decade living in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/21\/tokyo-wards-first-female-mayor-vows-to-take-on-japans-male-dominated-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satoko Kishimoto sets sights on \u2018radical change\u2019 in Japan, where only 2% of local government leaders are womenThe first female mayor of a district in Tokyo has vowed to challenge Japan\u2019s male-dominated politics, weeks after she became one of only two w&#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":[41,646,88,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-japan","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46643","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=46643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46643\/revisions\/46644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}