The women roar in Japan

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  • Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024

A campaign poster for Okada in Hirosaki. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

LAST summer, Hanako Okada, a Tokyo lawyer and mother of two young children, started to plan a campaign for Parliament from the northern rural district where she spent her childhood.

Nearly everyone she consulted gave the same odds on her chances of winning: close to zero.

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