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Japanese Lawmaker's Baby Gets Booted From The Floor

When Yuka Ogata went back to work after having a baby, she tried to bring him along. The response highlighted the difficulties working women face in rules-bound Japan.
Lawmakers in the Kumamoto Municipal Assembly talk with member Yuka Ogata, who brought her infant son to work.

When a municipal lawmaker, Yuka Ogata, brought her 7-month-old baby to her job in a male-dominated legislature, she was met with such surprise and consternation by her male colleagues that eventually, she and the baby were asked to leave. Officials of the Kumamoto Municipal Assembly, of which she's

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