Abe Champions Female Lawmaker as Women Fade From Parliament
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Megumi Kaneko stood on a podium in front of a poster of herself and dissolved into tears as she urged the mostly-male audience to pick her in this weekend’s Japanese election.
In the male-dominated world of Japanese politics, the 36-year-old beauty queen-turned-lawmaker faces a formidable rival in what makes for an unusual contest: Another woman.