FOCUS: More female lawmakers key to elevating women to leadership in Japan

With Prime Minister Fumio Kishida appointing a record-tying five women in Wednesday's Cabinet reshuffle, analysts have expressed hope that the move will lead to a substantial increase in the number of women lawmakers in male-dominated Japanese politics.Before the reshuffle of the Cabinet and the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Japan ranked 138th out of 146 countries in terms of gender equality in politics in a World Economic Forum survey.The low ranking by the Swiss-based WEF can be attributed to the fact that in Kishida's previous Cabinet, there were only two female memb…READ FULL ARTICLE