Japan still has a long way to go to achieve gender equality among candidates in elections, with this summer’s election for the House of Councilors marking the third national election since a law aimed at promoting gender equality in politics went into force in 2018.
For the election for the upper chamber of parliament, most of six major parties have raised the proportion of female candidates from the previous Upper House election in 2019.
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