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Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Makoto Oniki praised Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa in a House Budget Committee question on the 2nd, saying, “The leaders of each country called her Asian beauty and she was popular.” Mr. Marukawa also serves as Minister for Gender Equality.
In December 2015, COP21 was held in Paris. Under the leadership of Mr. Marukawa, who was the Minister of the Environment at the time, Mr. Oniki attended the meeting as Parliamentary Deputy Minister of the Environment. At the budget committee that day, Oniki asked Marukawa for “memories of the time when international negotiations were repeated towards the conclusion of the Paris Agreement.”
Mr. Marukawa told Mr. Oniki: “We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Mr. Oniki for negotiating with leading professionals from international organizations and playing a very important role in the overall agreement.” I replied.
Mr. Oniki then introduced that Mr. Marukawa had conversations with the ministers and leaders of each country, saying, “I heard that she was very popular because the leaders of each country called her Asian beauty.”
In addition, he said, “I would like to deepen the negotiations and exchanges with various countries at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, and make the festival a success that unites the world.”
After a series of problems with former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori’s disdain for women, Mr. Marukawa was in charge of the Olympics and was Minister for Gender Equality.