Posted on 10/20/2014 1:40:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Japan’s trade and justice ministers resigned Monday after accusations they misused campaign funds in the biggest setback so far for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative administration.
The two ministers were among five women Abe named to his Cabinet in a reshuffle early last month. Their resignations may help to control the damage to his relatively high popularity ratings, but are a blow to efforts to promote women in politics and business as part of economic revival policies. […]
Two other female Cabinet members known as Abe’s close allies on the right have been criticized for suspected ties with racist groups. Such scandals have marred his efforts to encourage Japan to accept more women in leadership positions. …
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what racism?
It reads like the article was written to put the word ‘conservative’ and the word ‘racist’ in proximity.
They are spazzing over 75 cent ‘gifts’ that aren’t even gifts. They had to include some past gold scandal to even make a comparison.
Typical modern agenda journalism. Conservative ideals are growing worldwide, ergo they must be tainted by association.
sheesh
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