{"id":54152,"date":"2023-04-07T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T04:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/i-decided-i-could-do-better-than-them-the-women-taking-on-japans-male-dominated-politics"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T04:57:57","slug":"i-decided-i-could-do-better-than-them-the-women-taking-on-japans-male-dominated-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54152","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I decided I could do better than them\u2019: the women taking on Japan\u2019s male-dominated politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female candidates in the local elections across the country this weekend face one of the world\u2019s toughest glass ceilings<\/p>\n<p>Ai Ishimori was teaching Japanese cookery classes in France when she was gripped by an urge to return to her home country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/shinzo-abe\">Shinzo Abe<\/a> was prime minister at the time, and a group of older men were doing a bad job of running the country,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I was unable to do anything about it. I was really worried about the direction my country was going in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/i-decided-i-could-do-better-than-them-the-women-taking-on-japans-male-dominated-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female candidates in the local elections across the country this weekend face one of the world\u2019s toughest glass ceilingsAi Ishimori was teaching Japanese cookery classes in France when she was gripped by an urge to return to her home country.\u201cShinzo Ab&#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":[41,237,646,88,281,704,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-feminism","category-gender","category-japan","category-women","category-women-in-politics","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152","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=54152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54153,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54152\/revisions\/54153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}