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PhD-student of politics at @waseda_univ . Discussing politics and social issues in Japan. Tweets are my own views. He/him🌈 EN/日本語/SWE/FI.
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@ElectoralStdies
! The article explains why uncontested politicians can put more energy into legislative activities than politicians elected in competitive elections.
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Yes, God forbid you care about the politics of the country you pay taxes and have a family in...
Hilarious seeing all the salty replies from foreigners who can’t even vote.
This is what the Japanese voters chose. If they wanted to change the status quo, they would have done so.
Foreigners getting angry at Japanese elections in general makes no sense to me.
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For those who read Japanese, this new survey from the NHK is quite interesting. It shows how middle- and high-schoolers (and their parents) discuss gender issues at home. I will summarize the main points in a short thread below (1)
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@ISOKO_MOCHIZUKI
ワニの涙だよね。不起訴が決まったので，今からいつもの「責任を痛感します」とかを言って自分の面目守りたいでしょ。アベさんの立場を考えればこれはあまりおかしいことではないが，このように全ての責任を秘書に移すことを許すシステムに，なんか腐ってるところあると気がする
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TokyoU rekords the highest ever percentage of female entrants at 23%, in most other countries I feel seeing this as a success would be seen as a joke.
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As many have probably noticed, a lesbian couple from Japan was granted asylum in Canada based of the discrimination they received in Japan. Many have noted that the amount of hate that is seen in the comments below the article confirm that many Japanese hold prejudiced views
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A new survey by the MHLW indicates that 61.0 percent of Japanese are in favor of allowing spouses to have separate surnames and 75.6 percent supports allowing same-sex marriage. Hard for the government to deny when their own ministries find that majority supports these policies
夫婦の姓に関し「同姓である必要はなく、別姓であってもよい」への賛成割合が61.0%に上り、「同性婚を法律で認めるべきだ」への賛成も75.6%に達したことが22日、厚生労働省の国立社会保障・人口問題研究所による全国家庭動向調査で分かりました。
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Chiba prefecture is planning to pass a "Diversity bill", meant to improve the acceptance of women, sexual minorities and foreigners. The bill has been one of governor Kumagai's priorities ever since he was first elected in 2021. One reason is that (1)
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Japan to increase spending on childrearing support to "the highest level in the OECD". My guess is that they will try to put a lot of money into trying to solve the problem while failing to recognize the deep structural problem underlying.
#少子化を考える
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This is horrible! Arai Masayoshi, the Kantei bureaucrat who was fired last year for saying he "didn`t even want LGBT people as neighbors" has been reinstated into senior management. So basically once people forget about scandal its like nothing happened
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Sources say that the Supreme Court (of Japan) may overturn a decision by an Aichi court that make same-sex couples ineligible for compensation when they are bereaved of their partner. This is the first time the court is expected to rule on the rights of same-sex couples.
同性パートナー給付金、26日判決「支給対象外」見直しか 最高裁(時事通信)
二審の結論変更に必要な弁論が開かれたことで「同性パートナーは支給対象外」とした名古���高裁の判断が【見直される可能性がある】
同性パートナーを巡る公的支給について最高裁が初めて判断する。
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Official documents reporting 145 Koreans were massacred by Japanese mobs during the 1923 were found in Kanagawa despite the government saying last week that it couldn`t find any historical documents on the matter.
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Quite worrying that almost one-third of Japanese either are not sure or do not think people should be able to publically criticize the government.
Singapore we don’t have to be so obvious about this xia suay sia
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Fukuoka court finds ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional!
きたーーー！
違憲状態！！
#福岡0608 #結婚の自由をすべての人に
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Opposition backed newcomer is declared the winner in the Maebashi mayoral race! The winner, Okawa, will be the first female mayor of the largest city in Gunma and she also managed to beat an LDP-backed incumbent.
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The Osaka Legal Affairs Bureau ruled that online remarks made by far-right LDP lawmaker Sugita Mio amounted to "a human rights violation". Sugita had said that Koreans and Ainu in traditional dress were "just cosplaying old women".
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@kharaguchi
投票用紙に候補者の名前じゃなくて，フィンランド見たいに候補者の指定された番号記入する制度ならこういう問題が回避されるはずけどね。
日本で投票用紙になんで候補者の名前を記入する理由あまり理解できない。きっと理由があるけどね。
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The Japanese Supreme Court ruled that the law forcing persons who wish to change their legal gender to first be sterilized (sterilization requirement) is “unconstitutional”. However according to the tweet this ruling will still not necessarily lead to the govt to change the law.
最高裁は性同一性障害特例法の「不妊化要件(生殖不能要件)」について「違憲」と判断。ひとまず良かった。ただ「外観要件」は判断せず高裁に差し戻し、申立人の性別変更の可否は再度審議と。不妊化要件は無効になるため「特例法は見直しを迫られる」。外観要件も含め緩和が必要
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Big victory for same-sex marriage in Japan, the Hokkaido high court finds that the civil law which prohibits marriages between same-sex couples to be "uncontstitutional" (違憲).
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@ikeuchi_saori
Nスペこんなテーマ上げて良かった。600万人が殺されたと言う数字はみんなが知ってると思うが，現場に起きたことを知りだけからユダヤ人大虐殺の本当の残酷さは分かるでしょう
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A poll conducted by Hokkaido shimbun finds that 76% of respondents thinks Japan should allow same sex marriage (the poll was conducted only in Hokkaido).
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@downpressor
I never said I thought I should have voting rights, and I really don't even dislike Koike that much, I like many of her policies. But still, I think its pretty natural that you have thoughts about the politics where you live
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While I do think this shows Japans minimum wage is pretty awful, considering the cost of living I think the US seems even worse
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A study by Tokyo University finds women who are treated by female doctors generally have better health outcomes than those treated by male doctors, having both lower mortality rates as well as re-hospitalizations.
女性患者は女性医師に治療された方がメリットが大きいと発表。男性医師の場合より死亡率や再入院率が低かった。女性医師が増えれば、女性患者の治療経過の改善につながる可能性も
患者と医師「女性同士」が有益 東京大など調査、死亡率など低く
#47NEWS
@47news_official
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Japans Supreme Court rules that same-sex partners will also be eligible for victims benefits when they are bereaved of their partners.
【同性パートナーへの被害者給付金の不支給、最高裁が差し戻し】
パートナーと同性であることを理由に被害者給付金を支給されなかった男性が、決定取り消しを求め愛知県を訴えていた裁判
最高裁は原判決を破棄して、高裁での裁判やり直しを命じました
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Musashino city assembly in Tokyo reaches 50% female legislators! While some smaller towns and villages do have more than 50% legislators, I believe this is the first city with over 100,000 people to reach this milestone in Japan (please correct me if I’m wrong)
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A family court in Nagoya has accepted a same-sex couples request for one of the partners to change his surname to match his partner. According to the article, the couple are raising a child together and wanted for the whole family to share the same name.
同性パートナーの姓へ変更認める 名古屋家裁「婚姻に準じる関係」(共同通信)
名古屋家裁が3月、同性パートナーと暮らす愛知県の男性に対し同じ姓への変更を認める決定を出していたことが分かった。家裁は「夫婦と実質的に変わらない生活実態にある」として姓の変更を認めた。
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Yesterday, the first hearing in Tokyo high court was heard on a case where a same-sex couple is seeking legal status for their marriage.
【新着映像】
同性婚東京一次訴訟の控訴審はじまる
戸籍上同性どうしのカップルが婚姻の法制化を求めている訴訟をめぐり 、東京高等裁判所で２３日、東京一次訴訟の控訴審第１回口頭弁論が行われた。
#同性婚 #婚姻の平等
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Motegi seems to be stepping up his efforts to become the next prime minister, saying today "there are things I want to accomplish (as PM)". Among his previous achievements are failing to disclose political funds and harassing foreign female journalists.
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Everyone keeps calling Nagasaki mayor [Suzuki Shiro] left-wing [because of his stance during atomic bombing ceremony], but as a matter of fact he was elected with the support of the LDP and DPP and beat an opponent supported by the CDP.
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The mother of a junior high school student who committed suicide after being bullied urges school to “admit the reality” that the school failed to create an environment where students were safe from bullying and harassment.
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My main observation is that while students seem to becoming more open to diversity, parents still seem to hold quite traditional views. Especially fathers seem to hold traditional views regarding childrearing and also are not taking enough responsibility in the household (10)
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New Mainichi Poll shows approval rating of the Kishida cabinet fall to 16%, the lowest since DPJ prime minister Kan in August 2011. The disapproval rating of 79% is the lowest of any government since Mainichi started their opinion polls in 1947.
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Far-right LDP lawmaker Sugita Mio loses her appeal to the Supreme Court in the case where she was accused of defamation against Shiori Ito when she liked a discriminatory Twitter-post against Ito. Sugita had already been found guilty by a lower court but appealed to the Supreme C
【速報】杉田水脈氏が最高裁でも敗訴 伊藤詩織さんを中傷するSNS投稿に「いいね」は違法 55万円の賠償確定
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This has to stop.
Indonesian man dies while in police custody north of Tokyo.
Since his arrest in October for driving without a license, the man had complained about health issues. But the police thought his condition did not require hospitalization.
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Seems like it's one rule for the LDP and another for the rest of us when it comes to corruption charges. 🤔
#DoubleStandards
#AccountabilityMatters
🚨There it is.
The media reports that the executive members of the Abe & Nikai factions won’t face prosecution over the LDP slush-fund scandal.
The accountants will take the fall, along with 3 or 4 low-level lawmakers.
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According to Kyodo poll, 71% of Japanese thinks Japan should introduce same-sex marriage.
同性婚71％容認、憲法世論調査 (共同通信)
同性婚「認める方がよい」が71％で、「認めない方がよい」の26％を大きく上回った。
→7割が賛成する同性婚を実現しないのは、同性婚を精神疾患とか信仰で治るなどとする宗教右派の影響を受けた自民政権だからだ。
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According to reports, there has been a shooting incident at a hospital in Toda-city in Saitama prefecture. A man was seen firing something which looked like a pistol. 2 people are said to have been hurt with non-lethal wounds.
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... on discrimination. However, in order to get support from the LDP majority in the prefectural assembly, calls for same-sex marriage and foreigner voter rights which were originally part of the bill were removed. Therefore, it seems to be a quite watered down affair. (3/end)
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The first of todays rulings on same-sex marriage in Tokyo finds not allowing same-sex couples to wed to be “in a state of unconstitutionality (違憲状態)” this is somewhat lighter than calling it outright unconstitutional (憲法違反) but still a win for marriage equality
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Left-leaning candidate Renho shakes hands with her opponent, nationalist Tamogami. In the midst of the ridiculousness that has been this Gubernatorial campaign, its nice to see some civility in JP politics as well.
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In the same Mainichi poll, when asked who is suitable as the next leader of the LDP and PM, only 1 percent answered Kishida should continue. Ishiba topped the poll with 25%, while FM Kamikawa came second with 12 percent, showing she is quite popular.
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Firstly, on the question to which level students want to study, the study found while in the past more boys had always wanted to study longer, in this study for the first time more girls than boys wanted to study in university or higher level. (2)
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Regarding sexual minorities, the study found that among students, most students would be "understanding" if one of their friends came out to them as a sexual minority. Girl students were slightly more understanding than boy students. (5)
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Far-right politician Toshio Tamogami argues that society has become too strict towards men engaging in sexual harrasment and that this is eroding the "tolerance" of traditional Japanese society.
@fuemiad
answers in the following manner: (in next tweet)
•女性職員の頭をなでる
•下着のラインが見えると指摘する
•女性職員のお尻を触る
•背後から抱きつく
•胸元が開いている服装の職員に屈むように指示し上からのぞく
•彼氏はいるのか？出産はいつか？聞く
こう言うのに寛容になれと？
もしや自分もやってたんですか？
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This shows the reason Renho came third, Ishimaru actually came first among the largest group of voters which was the group of unaffiliated while Renho failed to get this group. Koike won mostly on strong support from LDP. Renhos support was grounded in CDP and JCP supporters.
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Chiba prefecture is the only prefecture which has never passed a "gender equality resolution" (男女共同参画条例), something which the passing of this bill is hoped to fix. While the bill does not call for any penalties for those who discriminate, it does include restrictions (2)
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New NHK poll shows the cabinet approval rate fall to 23%, the lowest yet . Probably a result of the current funds scandal.
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Cabinet secretary Hayashi comments on the recent rulings arguing ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional that “the government will continue to monitor the situation ”
Why “monitor” when it clearly says it’s unconstitutional??
林官房長官「国民各層の意見や国会の議論の状況、同性婚に関する訴訟の動向などを引き続き注視する必要がある」
明確な違憲判決が今日札幌高裁で出ましたが、まだ注視ですか？？
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Tally of increase/decrease of seats in city assembly elections yesterday:
LDP -18
CDP +80
Ishin +144
Komei -28
JCP -65
DPP -20
Reiwa +39
SDP -29
Sansei +80
In city assemblies, the CDP didn’t do as badly. Still, Ishin was the biggest winner. Right-wing Sansei also gained a lot(1)
一般市議、区議当選者確定数
自民(-18:前回比)
立憲(+80)
維新(+144)
公明(-28)
共産(-65)
国民(-20)
れいわ(+39)
社民(-29)
参政(+80)
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Poll finds almost one-third of CDP voters are opposed to same sex marriage, almost as high as in LDP. Probably because most of their supporters are elderly while young people tend to be unaffiliated 🤔
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However, regarding traditional gender roles, there was a great difference between parents, with more than 70% of fathers agreeing with the statement "boys should be boys, girls should be girls" (男らしく，女らしく」) while less than half of mothers agreed with this sentiment (4)
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Asahi poll shows 54% of voters would prefer a non-LDP government next. However, expectations of the current opposition parties remain low.
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Newcomer Seike Ai beats LDP backed 5-times incumbent in race for Minato district mayor in Tokyo. Seike was an independent who had previously been associated with opposition parties in the district assembly. Seike will be the first female mayor in the district.
港区長選挙
清家愛氏 当確✅
新人の清家愛氏が、自民党と公明党が推薦する現職の武井雅昭氏を僅差で上回ったまま形勢が固まりつつあり、逆転がないとみられることから、当選が確実となりました。
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Japan has the lowest number of female doctors in the OECD. The tweet says that this shows the strong structural discrimination that exists again women in Japan.
Despite this, mortality rate amongst female doctors tend to be lower than with male.
差別をやめれば女性医師はどんどん誕生するとはっきりしました。
さらに男性医師よりも患者の死亡率が低い。
なのにこれまでドンズバに低い女性比率だった我が国、構造的に女性活躍を阻む構造がとにかく酷い。
医療界でジェンダー平等を進める河野先生の活躍に今後も期待😊
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Conservative LDP asshole MPs are fuming after yesterdays ruling on same-sex marriage, some saying that their voters will leave the party if they support same-sex marriage.
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However,among parents the study found very few parents reported having discussed LGBTQ issues with their children. Among mothers, only about 1/3 reported having discussed these issues while among fathers only 10% (!) reported having discussed sexual minorities with their kids (6)
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At present, local assemblies of 271 (15.2%) Japanese municipalities were elected uncontested. The number has risen 3.6% in the last 8 years. Uncontested elections occur when there are too few candidates for the seats available. (1)
#統一地方選挙2023
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While everyone is talking about the special elections, the Miyagi prefectural assembly election was also held yesterday. LDP and Komei loses majority while CDP increases their seats with all their candidates winning. Ishin also gains their first seats.
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In this article by the Asahi, a former adviser of the LDP talks about what he sees as the main threat to the LDPs position in power. His answer is quite obvious, a unified opposition.
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Nikkei poll finds Renho has strong support from elderly voters in their 60s and 70s. These groups tend to have quite high turnout. Ishimaru gets 40 percent of voters under 30.
小池百合子氏がリード、蓮舫・石丸伸二氏追う 東京都知事選挙の序盤情勢調査
■小池氏、維新の4割・国民民主3割の支持層に浸透
■蓮舫氏、60～70代からの支持目立つ
■石丸氏、18～29歳の4割強取り込む
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The expectation for parents had also changed where in the past parents expected boys to study longer than girls, this difference in expectation had now changed and now there was almost no difference between the sexes in terms of how long parents wanted them to study (3)
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Asahi reports the proportion of seats won by female candidates was the highest ever at 14% for prefectural assemblies. In the previous election, the proportion was 10.4%. However, the winning proportion among female candidates was (1)
#統一地方選挙2023
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Former PM Mori Yoshiro, who made the comment that women are too loud during the olympics, makes another sexist comment . This time he said “In this age, women get top positions only by being women”. Can’t he just stop talking…
は？
「今、女性の時代というか、女性でさえあればいい」 森喜朗元首相：朝日新聞デジタル #自民
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@TogetherlnTokyo
@usagi_matto
This kind of thing really makes me want to move out of Japan...
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I just saw a post on my timeline by someone (I am not following) who said anyone who complains about Japan is unhappy and should just leave Japan. I am happy but I still complain about the things I think are wrong, complaining is part of being a responsible emphatic citizen (1)
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Every municipality it Saitama except Kawaguchi (which happens to be the city I live in 🥲) now has adopted a same-sex partnership system in place .
埼玉県、あとは川口市だけ。
川口市で導入されれば、埼玉県内のどの自治体でも利用できるようになります！
レインボー埼玉の会さん、63もある市町村への取り組みありがとうございます。
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Finally, the study asked about how students wanted childrearing to be divided between parents in the future. Most of the students answered that childrearing should be equally split between parents, but about 1/4 still answered mothers should take the main responsibilities (7)
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With the historic decision by the supreme court today to rule that the sterilization requirement for changing legal gender is unconstitutional, Asahi published this article which explains how the law came to be in the first place. (thread)
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A poll on foreigners right to participate in politics in Japan finds only 16% wants foreigners to have more political rights. The most striking thing though is that 56% answered they don’t know, while 24% answered they were opposed, so seems status quo (1)
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40% of local assemblies in Japan are reported to have either no female legislators at all or had only one female legislator. Not surprised but what a sad statistic
全国の1788地方議会のうち、女性議員ゼロの議会は256、1人だけの議会も436で、両方を合わせた「女性ゼロワン議会」は約4割。50歳未満の女性議員は全体の2.9%と地方議会の構成は男性に著しく偏り、若年層の女性がほぼいないといういびつさが続いています。
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Despite being unpopular nationally, LDP-led forces managed to win the race for Okinawa's prefectural assembly, getting a majority and putting opposition-backed governor Tamaki's position in question.
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Interesting, the hashtag #検察庁法改正法案に抗議します criticizing a proposed law amendment that would allow prosecutors to stay at their jobs up to three years after their mandated retirement age has been shared almost 4 million times in the last days (cont.)
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CDP is tied with the LDP in the latest Mainichi poll, and Ishin is not far behind. Quite striking numbers, although Mainichi tends to have numbers that are more favorable for the opposition
毎日新聞世論調査（2月17～18日実施）
政党支持率
無党派 28（+1）
立憲 16（+2）
自民 16（ -7）
維新 13（+4）
共産 7（ -1）
れいわ 6（ -1）
国民 5（+1）
公明 3（±0）
参政 1（ -1）
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NHK reports leader of junior coalition partner Komeito calls LDP`s backwards attitude to LGBT rights protections law "embarrassing". Interesting Komeito use so strong language on matter.
公明 山口代表 LGBT議員立法「自民が後ろ向きで恥ずかしい」 | NHK
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Yaichi Tanigawa, the LDP member who left the party last week because of his role in the slush fund scandal, has decided to resign from his seat in the Lower House. Considering he is 82 years old, it doesnt really seem to be one day too soon.
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When parents were asked who takes the main responsibility in child-rearing, more than 70% answered that mothers take the main responsibility. This was unchanged from the previous study in 2012. Only about 20% reported that both parents share responsibilities equally (8)
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In a new Nikkei poll, 69 % of JP respondents say they are in favor of introducing a system to allow spouses to have separate surnames, while only 23 % are opposed. Even among LDP over 60 % are in favor. And still the LDP right keep going on about the public being split on issue.
日経より。賛成が増えて反対が減っていますね。
「結婚の際に夫婦が同姓か別姓かを選べるようにする選択的夫婦別姓への賛否を聞いた。「賛成」が69%と「反対」の23%を上回った」
選択的夫婦別姓、賛成69% 自民支持層も6割弱 日経世論調査 - 日本経済新聞
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Opposition backed Fukuyama leads in Kyoto! If this keeps, this is big news!
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Today, the data on Japanese lawmakers income was released. There wasn`t anything really surprising in the data. LDP lawmakers earn on average somewhat more than lawmakers from other parties. The average wage of all lawmakers was 21,56 million yen (/year)
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Ishin`s leader Baba calls his own party "the second LDP(第2自民党)" and rules out any future cooperation with CDP calling the CDP "a party which calls crows white, while we say as it is that they are black". (1)
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The J-government has decided it will abolish the foreign technical trainee system and replace it with a "system for training and employment". What the difference between the new and old system will be seems quite ambiguous
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These were my main observations. I might have missed a few points like the questions on if students want to get married and get kids in the future. (9)
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The CDP passes the LDP and becomes the biggest party in the latest poll by Go2Senkyo-DX (note this is only among the respondents who took the poll by phone). Must say I thought I read the poll wrong the first time
選挙ドットコム・JX通信世論調査（5月11～12日実施・電話）
比例投票先
立憲 27.3（+6.1）
自民 17.8（ -5.3）
維新 12.2（ -0.8）
共産 8.6（+0.3）
公明 5.1（+1.2）
れいわ 3.1（±0.0）
国民 2.0（+0.3）
参政 0.7（ -0.2）
社民 0.4（ -0.9）
みんな 0.2（±0.0）
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CDP lawmaker Yoneyama Ryuichi (Niigata 5th) rebuffs his party colleague Haraguchi Kazuhiro (Saga 1st) for saying that Russia ”is not the bad part in the Ukraine war”. Yoneyama said that both he and the CDP as a party is strongly supporting Ukraine.
私も立憲民主党も、今般の戦争で非があるのはロシアであり、ウクライナを支援する十分な理由があり、支援は当然であるという立場です。宜しくお願い致します。
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Upper House member Takano Koujiro of the LDP will quit as a lawmaker. The reason is that it came to light that he had hit his secretary in the face so hard that the secretary started bleeding from the nose.
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The yen temporarily falls back 160 yen per dollar. It is thought to be a result of the Feds decision not to lower interest rates in the near future. Finance minister Suzuki commented the J-govt will take "necessary measures" to deal with the weak yen.
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Kato Ayuko, the minister for Children’s affairs, is in a political scandal. It has been alleged that 14.4 million yen (~96,000usd) from her political organization were used to pay for her mother’s personal expenses. (1)
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Former vice-minister of Justice Kakizawa well be prosecuted for alleged vote buying schemes. Seems like the scandals regarding the LDP's money use never ends.
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１０代の女性の方は悪いのコメントは多いが、これは全く納得できません。消防士は無理やり飲ませた可能性もあるだろうし、自主的に飲んでもこれは性的暴行に同意したわけじゃありません。こういう事が起きると、日本人は被害者の非を見つけたい気がするが、犯罪（悪い事）をしたは加害者だけです。
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According to analyst Yoneshige Katsuhiro, the current Nikkei poll is the lowest approval rating for any govt since LDP returned to power in 2012. Showing how badly Kishida is currently doing.
12年自民党政権復帰以来で見ても最低
“岸田文雄内閣の支持率は33%で2021年10月の政権発足後、最低となった。9月の前回調査からは9ポイント低下した”
内閣支持33%、発足後最低 所得減税「適切でない」65%：日本経済新聞
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New TBS poll on the Tokyo mayoral race finds Koike still in the lead with Renho in second place "Chasing vehemotly (激しく追い上げ)". In third place is Ishimaru while in a distant fourth Tamogami.
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This chart shows the results of the rulings on the constitutionality of not allowing same-marriage so far. Out of 7 rulings, only one found that the current ban on same-sex marriage is fully constitutional. All others find the current situation is not constitutional.
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A new poll by Mainichi finds the support rate for the Kishida cabinet fall to 28%, down 5 percent since last month and down 17 percent since 2 months ago. The disapproval rate was up 7 points since last month at 65%.
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