Japan’s leading women look set to finally break the ‘steel ceiling’
Three women now hold powerful political posts in a country that has never had female PM
Japanese minister under fire over sex bar ‘expenses’
Controversy involving Yoichi Miyazawa follows two cabinet resignations
Two Japanese government ministers resign in single day
Yuko Obuchi, widely tipped to become Japan’s first female prime minister, steps down
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