South Korea recently elected its first female president, but it looks like it will still take some time before Japan follows suit and appoints a woman as prime minister, at least according to a recent survey by Tohoku University.
The findings of the small-scale online poll, conducted by the university at the end of December and released Monday, showed that 66.5 percent of respondents believe there are currently no female lawmakers suitable to take the helm of government.
Of the 310 respondents in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, Yuriko Koike of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party was backed by just 8.7 percent of those polled to become the nation's leader, followed by Renho of the Democratic Party of Japan at 3.9 percent and LDP lawmaker Yuko Obuchi, the daughter of the late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, at 3.5 percent.