global media forum, dw, so once take socks we in fact, every day the world crashes. i used to work for free time, like because we can take the different w all the world unpack, pops out. your info is and all the input the w story. now on to the this is the w use a just coming up today is japan making progress? the long road to gender equality and japanese politics? i talked to a new female problem entries, man. the are about doing business with a whole lot of old men and participation targets for women in hub potty

think it's an encouraging sign that we set that target and that's the target. but i also personally rank 30 percent to be quite low. i think we need to get to 50 and end of the line of the 40 years on comes based on cats who is forced out of a job for the wing pressure from the aging. back to forward hates the . i've been to zillow and welcome depend ranks top of the world on gender parity in educational achievement in politics. the country is almost from the bottom. japanese women hold just 10 percent of parliamentary states. their laws to change that at all levels, but no penalties. so little pro great and the debates about a strict contract in the business world depends problem. it is to as ordered the government to start increasing the number of female executives in big companies to

30 percent or more by 2030 of 80 is bought of a new generation of japanese politicians. she bought a seat in parliament last election as member of the rules. example, democrats, a woman of we go oregon. she advocates for diversity and gender equality in japan. i asked her what drew her to politics? i think so. i wish i had any then um and it's exactly what you mentioned. i was working on the nation's officer just a year ago and within my work at the when one of my job was to really track democracies within my portfolio and to really track diversity representation within the country. i was assigned to analyze for me with south asia, but i noticed during my time there that even in my whole country, japan where i believe we have an advanced democracy,

we still weren't seeing, you know, the phases of japanese people being represented at all. and it's not just gender, race, gender wide, only 25 percent of our upper house as women. um, just about 10 percent of our lower houses, women, and obviously almost half of our population as long as agenda are, is a big issue. but also within the men that are being represented, we are extremely over represented by men who come from a specific generation with a specific economic background. japan already is a very diverse country. and when i say japan is diverse, it's a little different from how diversity might be viewed in the west. for example, i just, i'm are seeing dependents. i think so much more about, you know, the reasons you come from the life experiences you've had, the upgrade,

you've had the depend that you've experienced and the identities and skill sets and you know, career tracks that you represent and carry with you. and right now, you know, a lot of this well, of diversity here in japan. well, of the japanese people is not being represented. and i think the only way out is really for us to you know, encourage canada, sees from diverse populations and not just, you know, audience that versus the like women or you know, jumping people with foreign backgrounds or multi backgrounds like myself. but japanese people who come from me all across our country and who come from all walks of like, and terry with them all kinds of skill sets and perspectives. so tell me how difficult or restrictive is it doing business with a whole lot of old man. how, how tough is it to break into that club a hey, i will to freeze it that way, but it is, you know, it is a group that is over represented as i said,

the by man of a specific age group. right. and also a specific time on the background, but being within the l. d p. and having run into know the, the canada twice and now having been elected, i've been incredibly pleasantly surprised by how um, you know, and, and mislead, you know, you know, obviously shared this, this opinion is that we need more representation in our politics. i think one of the strengths of the l d p is that although we are represented by the older man, they do recognize that we need younger voices. they recognize that we need women's voice. um they and they recognize that our diversity is, are well and you know, they've been incredibly supportive and encouraging of my own tendency. and my talk here, and i very much look forward to learning from everybody other than the,

including the woman to the very few women who i very much respect of the buyer. being supportive and actually making sure that the system is changed to a 2 different things. so what about a quote, a system for female little makers? is that something that japan is going to need? seeing is a does rank lowest among the world's big economies on that front. you know, that's a really good point. i absolutely agree on the front that the support is supported is different from actually attaining result in that sense, in the previous selection we had for the upper house last summer, they'll leave you have said a target to have 30 percent of the field. 30 percent of all candidates to be women. i think it's an encouraging sign that we set that target and meant the target. but i also personally find 30 percent to be quite low. i think we need to get to safety and these kinds of targets. i think within the party,

i think it's necessary, but in terms of quotas to fill in these spots, i would be a little more careful on that just because i believe that, you know, within our democracy the voters should have a choice of, you know, be able to vote for the candidates and they want to vote for regardless of the kind of gender or their identities. right. and in that sense, i think representation is important, but i'm a little careful while i'm putting on put out there. lastly, uh when it comes to your career and politics, how, how would you like to see japan deal with china for example, and it's oppression of week is considering a week of background or no. thank you for the question um, what is happening in the we will region and to that, we were people not only in china, but across the globe. and i say across the globe because even for we were to live a grow i and they live with degree of not being able to meet their families. speaks

to their families and to live with the threat under the threat of being surveillance. and threatened to even abroad. and i truly truly believe that what is happening in the region today is one of the 3 is greatest human rights crises. the 1st time it is a test to all of our democracies and to our partners who believe in values of democracy and human rights and kind of mental rights for all. and i definitely would like to see japan do more with with, with this issue. we outline human rights due diligence, the framework within our supply chain, both for 8 ports and exports. i think we need to make sure that japanese exports are not being used, you know, for in paper of human rights violations. and i think we also need to make sure that we're not in sporting goods that are produced through force labor for example. i think that japan, you know, because it is a country that even

a most of the stuff and i think maintains the healthy relationships with the asian countries and middle eastern countries. um i think there's so much more that japan could do to be a bridge builder to be a negotiator, to be an in between the for my power. and i look forward to that developing it would be, it would be incredibly wonderful if japan could establish the institutions or academic institutions within japan to preserve a way to cultural heritage and we are academia and that is especially under threat under the current the current situation a hearing, thank you so much for your take on all of those topics and good luck in your pursuit and you ok, thank you very much. thanks so much for having me. another blow to freedom of expression and independent media in hong kong and use paper has

asked the city's most prominent political cartoonist, bowing to state prussia one k kwan better known as when see at his last drawing published on sunday. but that's not going to muscle him. he says to question and challenge is part of the healthy society. budging of is to keep speaking out as well. with his pin and to shop, which one k kwan has been amusing and challenging rate is for the past 4 decades under the pin named song. so he's cartoons, have been a staple in the home, compress in 2023, a hostile market for political sets. all ha, monitors are summit both apart from news reports, comics actually serve as a record of societies, emotions, some late persons, ideas or the thoughts of the massive sort of answer question. i believe this is something that should be done in a healthy society and environment. your liking,

testing by utility, soon as the cartoons have gone, a huge following. they've tackled controversial topics, including john is taught in group of hong kong and beijing's correct download press freedoms. being town newspaper was the last mainstream media outlet to publish. as soon as the cartoons, but edits, as they are decided to ex, the strip after a string of government complaints. do you want to go and make all of them the government claims that content is not in line with the facts. of course, this is a method used by the authorities and their main objective is not to target the comics. i've drawn the time, i could think of a page i believe. the reason for stopping them is that the government wants to minimize and suppress opposing voice. it's as much as possible during the game to sing them to and they want to get rid of resistance when they influence

their policies. ok, things have gone. see that there are problems here totally despite the narrowing space, but he's critical voice. the 67 year old says he wouldn't leave hong kong all stop speaking out. you know, because he already go to this line of work is like being a firefighter. they only go places where there are fires, but they can't just rush to every single one. let me see what the fire fighters can't flee when they see a fire. so we should stay put to live and record our times. you can go ahead and buy a home comfortable make a walks away in a rain storm. one k kuanz last publish cartoon feeding farewell to read is from now at least and before we go, the seasons only just begun by the new re quote has already been said. from the dizzying heights of mount everest, 53 year old nipple leaves claim a company,

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