For a brief moment in autumn 2017 — before some ill-considered Machiavellian comments scuppered her chances — it seemed as though the conservative governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, might sweep to power as Japan's first female prime minister.
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms, Edited by Julia C. Bullock, Ayako Kano and James Welker.
312 pages
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