Women guards
Twenty of the toughest women in Japan are receiving special training to protect the British Prime Minister (Mrs Margaret Thatcher) when she visits Japan next month, Tokyo police sources have said. They said that the women, all experts in unarmed combat, would also protect the wives of other participants to the Tokyo economic summit meeting on June 28-29. The women, members of Japan’s small but v elite Security Police which guards politicians and important visitors, hold black belts in aikido, a Japanese martial art similar
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Press, 19 June 1979, Page 27
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