Karate threat
NZPA Tokyo Male members of Japan’s Upper House have been warned that they may be in danger of getting a’ karate chop from women members if they present bills unfavourable to women or “make humiliating remarks about them.” Japan’s new Women’s Party is planning to field about 10 candidates for elections in July to the 252-seat house.
The party’s founder, the demure Mrs Misako Enoki, has said all candidates will learn karate to deal with “unsympathetic” Parliamentarians of the opposite sex. They would be fully prepared to inflict karate chops on the male legislators, she warned.
Mrs Enoki claims Japanese male chauvinism is ending after 5000 years. Since founding her party in March, she has led her feminist shock troops, nicknamed the “Pink Helmets,” against the offices of errant husbands to force them to pay alimony. The Diet (Parliament) at present has 10 women in the 511-seat Lower House and 18 in the Upper House.
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