A group of women in the Japanese capital are threatening a 'sex boycott' against any man who votes for Yoichi Masuzoe in this weekend's gubernatorial election, in protest at the front-runner's claim that menstruation makes women unfit for government. A Tokyo-based Twitter campaign group – which bills itself as "the association of women who will not have sex with men who vote for Masuzoe" – has gar
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