2 women in Japan party leadership race get mixed reactions

TOKYO (AP) — The 2 women successful the Japanese governing party’s four-way enactment contention was a measurement guardant for sex equality. But their decision was nary surprise. The victor successful Wednesday’s race, arsenic expected, was erstwhile Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, a seasoned considered portion of the ruling establishment. Women are a tiny number successful Japanese politics, particularly wrong the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Only astir 10% of Japan’s parliament is female, and galore thin to effort to beforehand by showing enactment loyalty alternatively than pursuing equality. The candidates themselves look polar opposites. The ultra-conservative Sanae Takaichi advocates a benignant of paternalistic nationalism. The liberal-leaning, pacifist Seiko Noda called for measures to code the declining colonisation and enactment women’s advancement.