LDP Tokyo assembly member admits sexist heckling

TOKYO, Japan - Akihiro Suzuki (R), a Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, apologizes to Ayaka Shiomura, a Your Party assembly member, in Tokyo on June 23, 2014, for subjecting her to sexist heckling during an assembly session. Suzuki said, "You should get married first," while Shiomura was posing questions on the metropolitan government's maternity support measures.

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