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(International) Liberal Democrat MP ‘Mocking Hanbok’ Involved in scandal…nomination applications withdrawn

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(International) Liberal Democrat MP ‘Mocking Hanbok’ Involved in scandal…nomination applications withdrawn

Liberal Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Mio Sugita, who has caused controversy in the past by mocking women in hanbok, sought to run as a proportional representative candidate in the upcoming House of Representatives election on 27, but he failed to get the nomination because of his involvement. in a scandal of political funds.

Three former and current lawmakers implicated in the political funds scandal were missing from the Liberal Democratic Party’s list of candidates for proportional nomination, but the party’s local organization called for the sole nomination as proportional representation candidates.

“All three have withdrawn their applications for nominations,” said Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party. “We intend to reflect on the failure and we want to get back to it.”

In early April, Sugita, a three-term right-wing congresswoman, was suspended from her party duties for six months as the amount of her report on the balance of poor political funds reached 140 million won

When I participated in the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2016, I made a sarcastic post on social media about women wearing hanbok, saying, “It’s a matter of dignity because even and the jeogori skirts and cosplay women in national Ainu costumes appear.”

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