Seoul has threatened to boycott the Tokyo Olympic Games over an ongoing territorial dispute. South Korea filed a complaint after the release of a map marking remote islands between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
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Japan s overall score could have been far worse, but the country s position was boosted by relatively high figures for health and survival as well as educational attainment.
Still, the nation was badly let down in its scores for economic participation and, in particular, political empowerment.
Japan was in 147th place in terms of women in politics, a figure that is largely determined by the number of women in a nation s parliament. Just 9.9% of members of the House of Representatives are female and just two of the 21 members of the cabinet are women. Japan also came in a lowly 117th in the economic field, which is primarily based on the ratio of women among senior managers.
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Every couple of years, there are reports on why Japan’s prime minister refuses to live in the official residence. Last week saw the issue being discussed again in Japanese media, and every time it comes up, so does the same answer: rumours of ghosts.
Completed in April 2002, the prime minister’s residence – known as the Sori Kotei – is a spacious six-floor structure adjacent to the National Diet Building. But since being elected in a parliamentary vote in September last year, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has remained in the cramped quarters at the Diet members’ dormitory to which he has been entitled for the past 25 years.