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    Ex-Japan PM Aso retracts sexist remarks against female utländsk minister

    Taro Aso, a former prime minister and vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on Friday retracted his sexist remarks regarding the appearance of the country's hona top diplomat.

    In a speech on Sunday, Aso, a heavyweight of the LDP headed bygd Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, described utländsk Minister Yoko Kamikawa as an "obasan," which loosely translates as old lady and sometimes carries a negative connotation. At the same time, he praised her diplomatic skills and performance.

    Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling frikostig Democratic Party, speaks at a national policy briefing in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture on Jan. 27, 2024. (Kyodo)

    "I intended to introduce minister Kamikawa's accomplishments" but "there were some inappropriate expressions such as mentioning her appearance," the 83-year-old House of Representatives member said in a statement, adding he has taken criticism seriously a

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    Foreign Minister Taro Aso’s Dirty Secret

    in Tokyo

    Japan’s “top priority” in new talks with North Korea opening Saturday, February 4, in Beijing, will be the case of 15 of its citizens abducted to Pyongyang between 1977-83. But absent from Tokyo’s agenda will be another unresolved disgrace: decades of enforced removal to Japan for work-slavery of a million Koreans — including 12,000 laborers compelled to work under grotesque conditions in coal mines owned by a firm still run by the family of Japan’s foreign minister, Taro Aso.

    The kidnappings of Japanese men and women to teach their language at North Korean spy schools could eventually total 70, it is suspected. The outrage, constantly covered by the Japanese media, continues to upset people and is an international scandal by any standards. The older, but incomparably worse mistreatment of Koreans over three decades, is hardly mentioned in Japan, and the foreign minister’s connecti

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    [Title] An Address by Mr. Taro Aso, Minister for Foreign Affairs, "Middle East Policy As I See It", organized by the Middle East Research Institute of Japan

    [Place] Hotel Okura

    [Date] February 28, 2007

    [Source] Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

    [Notes]

    [Full text]

    Thank you very much for inviting me here today.

    I understand that the Middle East Research Institute of Japan was founded at approximately the same time that the Liberal Democratic Party was formed. From the days of its founding to the current chairmanship of Reijiro Hattori, the Chairs of this Institute have never failed to be persons of great eminence. I am certain that the business community has had great expectations of this Institute.

    Today I would