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Women's Rights in Japan

I feel already that there has been a change. More women now have the courage to call people out when they feel intimidated or abused. I've also started a new campaign to find ways to encourage women aged between 20 and 30 to become politicians at the next local elections. No use nor Japan isn't the only campaign for equality here in Japan. The Me Too movement inspired a pack crush against the regulation whereby women have to wear heels in a workplace called kutu. And then we had the creative head of the Tokyo Games Hiroshi Sasaki quitting after suggestions that a plus-size female comedian should perform at the games as what he called an Olympic. Behind the headlines recent research suggests that Japan

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