The inclusion of two women among the four candidates vying to become the next prime minister seems like a big step forward for Japan’s notoriously sexist politics. But their fate is in the hands of a conservative, mostly male governing party and the leading female candidate has been criticized by observers for her right-wing gender policies.

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