{"id":75821,"date":"2025-12-31T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/31\/female-lawmakers-in-japan-lobby-for-more-toilets-in-parliament"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:29:10","slug":"female-lawmakers-in-japan-lobby-for-more-toilets-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75821","title":{"rendered":"Female lawmakers in Japan lobby for more toilets in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM Sanae Takaichi joins petition calling for better facilities for women to match  improved representation<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 60 female lawmakers in Japan, including the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling for more toilets in the parliament building for women to match their improved representation.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese politics remains hugely male-dominated, although the number of women in the parliament rose at the last election \u2013 and Takaichi became the first female prime minister in October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/31\/female-lawmakers-in-japan-lobby-for-more-toilets-in-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Sanae Takaichi joins petition calling for better facilities for women to match  improved representationNearly 60 female lawmakers in Japan, including the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling for more toilets in the parli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"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":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","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\/75821","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\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75827,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75821\/revisions\/75827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}