Women lawmakers protest at health minister's comment on women

Women lawmakers protest at health minister's comment on women

TOKYO, Japan - Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (3rd from R), along with other opposition parties' women lawmakers, hands a protest note at the Diet building to health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa (C) on Jan. 29 over his remarks calling women ''birth-giving machines.'' (Pool photo)

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