Female lawmakers in Japan wear white to protest Mori's sexist remarks

A group of female Japanese lawmakers wore white in parliament Tuesday in protest of recent comments by Tokyo Olympic organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori widely criticized at home and abroad as sexist against women.Opposition members of the House of Representatives attended a plenary session wearing white jackets with white roses on their lapels, an homage to the early 20th century U.S. women's suffrage movement.Their male colleagues also sported white roses in a show of solidarity, while members of the House of Councillors wearing white attended as observers. The protest was organized …READ FULL ARTICLE