Women “would have their uteruses removed when they turn over 30,” Naoki Hyakuta, leader of the Conservative Party of Japan, said in a stream on his YouTube channel on Friday.
On the channel, he also said that he would make it law for “women who are single after 25 years old not to be allowed to marry.”
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Later, Hyakuta posted an apology on his X account. “I cannot deny that the expressions were too harsh,” he said. “I apologize for those who were offended.”
Not since last year, when it was raised to 16.
Even then that was the national minimum set over a hundred years ago.
In practice it’s 18 in most prefectures, and has been for years, due to local law setting it to something sane.