{"id":61550,"date":"2024-01-31T13:26:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T04:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/japans-former-pm-83-year-old-aso-piles-insults-on-female-foreign-minister"},"modified":"2024-01-31T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T04:26:46","slug":"japans-former-pm-83-year-old-aso-piles-insults-on-female-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61550","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s former PM, 83-year-old Aso, piles insults on female foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taro Aso, vice-president of ruling LDP, said Yoko Kamikawa \u2018not that good looking\u2019, got her name wrong, used ageist jibe and mixed up her place in history<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese former prime minister and vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic party has been accused of sexism after making insulting comments about the foreign minister\u2019s appearance and age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s not that good looking,\u201d Taro Aso, who has a long history of inappropriate remarks, said of Yoko Kamikawa during a recent speech, before awkwardly praising her abilities as a politician. \u201cBut she speaks with dignity, speaks properly in English and makes appointments with people she needs to see on her own, without help from diplomats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/31\/japans-former-pm-83-year-old-aso-piles-insults-on-female-foreign-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taro Aso, vice-president of ruling LDP, said Yoko Kamikawa \u2018not that good looking\u2019, got her name wrong, used ageist jibe and mixed up her place in historyA Japanese former prime minister and vice-president of the ruling Liberal Democratic party has bee&#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-61550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550","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=61550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550\/revisions\/61551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}