Mio Sugita earns notoriety for accusations that women lie about sexual violence and LGBT community are ‘unproductive’

Of all the candidates for Japan’s most sexist comment of the year, there seemed to be only one possible winner – Yoshiro Mori, the former head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organising committee, who was forced to resign last month after complaining that women “talked too much” during meetings.

But even Mori was unable to compete with Mio Sugita, a conservative politician with a history of insulting women and members of the LGBT community.

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