LDP Diet member admits sexist heckling at committee meeting

OSAKA, Japan - Sayuri Uenishi, a House of Representatives member from the opposition Japan Restoration Party, speaks to reporters in Osaka on July 4, 2014. Uenishi said Hideo Onishi, a lower house member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, admitted earlier in the day to having heckled her by telling her to "get married and have children," during a Diet committee meeting in April, and apologized to her on the phone.

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