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70 years, dw, i, she's got any issues or thoughts say what? the this is the w use asia coming up today. is japan making progress? the long road to gender equality and japanese politics. i talk to a new female problem in treatment or about doing business with a whole lot of old men and participation targets full. we've been 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 outcomes based on cots who is forced out of a job for the impression from the badging back till 3rd hates. the i've been to dual 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 progress. hence, the debates about a strict contract. in the business world, japan's prime minister has ordered the government to start increasing the number of

female executives in big companies to 30 percent or more by 2030. of 80 is part of a new generation of japanese politicians. she bought a seat in parliament last election as member of the building. they both democrats, a woman of we go origin, 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 wise, only 25 percent of our upper house is 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 japan is 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 japan that you've experienced and the identities and skill sets and you know, career tracks that you represented 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 candidates, ease from diverse populations and not just, you know, obvious 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? 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 you now and, and mislead, you know, unanimously shared at 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 quarter system for female lawmakers? is that something that japan is going to need? seeing is it 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 set 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 met 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 the 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 that they want to before 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 studying what other losely. 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. you know, 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 the grease of not being able to meet their families,

speak to their families and to live with the threat under the threat of being surveilled and threatened to even abroad, and i truly truly believe that what is happening in the region today is one of the great, this greatest human rights crises, the 1st time it is a test to all 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, a framework within our supply chain, both for 8 ports and exports. i think we need to make sure that just means 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 forced 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 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 we the cultural heritage and we are academia and that is especially under threat under the current the current situation erie, 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 paypal has

asked the city's most prominent political cartoonist, bowing to state prussia, one k kwan better known as when see had his last drawing published on sunday. but that's not going to model 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 pen name soon. so he's cartoons. have been a staple in the home. compress in 2023. a hostile market for political set to auto monitors or something. and both a part from news reports comics actually serve as a record of societies of motions, 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, starting by util the soon as the cartoons have gone to a huge following. they've tackled controversial topics, including china is taught in group on hong kong. and beijing is correct, download press freedoms for being town. newspaper was the last mainstream media outlet to publish. as soon as the cartoons but editors, they decided to x, the strip after a string of government complaints. do you want to go and make all 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 are com suits on the spot, the narrowing space, but he's critical voice. the 67 year old says he weren't leave hong kong. all stop speaking out because he already told to do 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. single firefighters 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. a fitting farewell to read is from now at least and before we go, the season suddenly just begun bought a new break. what has already been said from the dizzying heights of mount everest, 53 year old nap leaves, claim

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