Worldly Curio

January 13, 2019

Japanese student rejects tabloid’s apology for ranking women by ‘easiness’

PRI's The World

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Kazuna Yamamoto is a college student who started an online petition to get a Japanese tabloid magazine to apologize for an article that rated Japan's universities according to how easy it is for men to get female students to have sex with them. She succeeded and along the way got 40,000+ responses to her online appeal. Produced by: The World staff. Image credit: Toru Hanai/Reuters.

Aired January 9, 2019

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