The Japanese government on Wednesday announced countermeasures against a U.N. committee on discrimination against women that has called for reviewing Japan's male-only imperial succession law.The government will ensure that Japan's voluntary contributions to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights are not used to fund the activities of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Foreign Ministry spokesman Toshihiro Kitamura told a press conference.It will also suspend until the end of the current fiscal year through March a program to invite committee memb…READ FULL ARTICLE
