A senior Japanese minister has been criticized for allegedly suggesting that some women who are raped are "asking for it" by the way they dress.
According to an article in the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda made the __12__ statement during an off-the-record discussion with reporters last Friday. Mr Fukuda was quoted as saying: "There are women who look like they are saying ’Do it to me’. Those who have that kind of appearance are __13__, because men are black panthers."
But when questioned about his comments on Wednesday, Mr Fukuda said it had never been his intention to defend rape, and accused the Shukan Bunshun of __14__ the situation. He told a parliamentary panel that rape was "a criminal act and an __15__ crime".
Mr Fukuda’s alleged remarks come __16__ a week after another senior politician, ruling party lawmaker Seiichi Ota, was forced to apologize after saying that gang rapists were "__17__ " and "close to normal", and at least had a healthy attitude to sex.
Mizuho Fukushima, Secretary General of the opposition Social Democratic Party, __18__ Mr Fukuda’s reported comments as "shameful". "He has absolutely no __19__ of equality between the sexes, or the fact that sexual violence is a breach of human rights," Mr Fukushima said. (BBC News, July 3, 2003)
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