TOKYO: The inclusion of two women among the four candidates vying to become the next prime minister seems like a big step forward for Japan’s notoriously sexist politics.
But their fate is in the hands of a conservative, mostly male governing party – and the leading female candidate has been criticised by observers for her right-wing gender policies.
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