So much for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's call to empower women.
Only 15 percent of candidates running in this election from mainstream parties are female.
In a count Tuesday, only 169 of the 1,093 candidates from eight major parties were women — far short of the administration's stated goal of having 30 percent of public- and private-sector leadership positions filled with women by 2020.
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