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Anchoress
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posted 08 May 2005 11:30 AM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Japan's ruling party is pursuing drastic revisions to the country's constitution, including rewording the guarantee of gender equality. Women's rights advocates say that if the revisions pass, Japan will return to "a dark period of history."
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Agent 204
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posted 08 May 2005 12:33 PM      Profile for Agent 204   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow. And they call themselves the "Liberal Democratic Party"?

But then, I think Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party is called the Liberal Democratic Party as well.

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maestro
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posted 08 May 2005 08:14 PM      Profile for maestro     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A great cartoon from that website

http://tinyurl.com/7s6pe

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Anchoress
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posted 09 May 2005 09:58 PM      Profile for Anchoress     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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verbatim
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posted 09 May 2005 10:06 PM      Profile for verbatim   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow. I had no idea that Japan was so backward in this area. I mean, I knew they still valued traditional communitarian values, but I didn't realize those values were government policy, or had the force of law! Thanks for posting that link, Anchoress..
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posted 09 May 2005 11:00 PM      Profile for Papal Bull   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, Japan may be an economic power, but they still have lots of problems. Their next Prime Minister is riding on a wave of popular support for nuclear armament and anti-North Korean policies.
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