8,000 threatening emails sent to politician over menstrual care post

More than 8,000 emails threatening to kill a 27-year-old local assembly member in central Japan were sent after she posted on social media calling for menstrual products to be made available in public restrooms.Ayaka Yoshida, a member of the Mie prefectural assembly, said she filed a complaint with local police on Monday, which was accepted. One of the emails sent to the assembly's secretariat mocked her, saying, "At her age, she should know to carry emergency sanitary napkins."According to the secretariat, emails threatening the life of Yoshida, a member of the Japanese Communist Party, we…READ FULL ARTICLE