Koizumi defend 'tears' remark

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks in reply to opposition questions at a House of Councillors Budget Committee session Jan. 30. The premier defended a remark he made on Jan. 25 on women's tears as the ''truth'' after some lawmakers called it sexist. ''Tears are women's greatest weapons. When women cry, men cannot compete with them,'' Koizumi said of former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, who had tears in her eyes at the Diet after talks about her feud with bureaucrats in her ministry.

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