An all-woman police squad trained ahead of a presidential visit by President Donald Trump, on Nov. 1, 2017, in Tokyo.
Asahi Shimbun: Japan rolls out sleek, all-female police squad to protect Ivanka
A squad of female police have smartened themselves up to guard U.S. presidential adviser Ivanka Trump, who arrives in Tokyo on Nov. 2.
Gone is the bulky body armor used when facing rioters or dangerous criminals, to be replaced by smart black suits.
It is the first time that Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has formed a female-only security team.
Ivanka, a popular fashion icon, will have dozens of female officers, mostly riot police members, watching over her as the police expect many female admirers to gather to catch a glimpse of her.
“We opted for a more cultivated look to suit the occasion," an officer in charge of the security plan said.
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Update #1: Japan unveils female police squad to protect Melania, Ivanka Trump (ABC News)
Update #2: Japan to deploy elite, all-female police force to protect Melania & Ivanka during visit (RT)
WNU Editor: The Japanese also suffer from political correctness.
4 comments:
Might not be a bad idea - given the state of the modern Japanese male...
Russ
Take a gander at obesity in American males before you badmouth Japanese.
Life expectancy for men and women in Japan at highest ever...Am slipping down yearly!
Ninjaettes?
Fred, I'd rather be fat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/6klwri/why_are_japanese_men_so_feminine/
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Japanese-guys-try-to-look-feminine-Dont-the-girls-find-it-gross
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/style/19iht-fslim.1.8387017.html
TOKYO — There was a time when slimness was the absolute prerequisite for urban Japanese women, when designers like Shinichiro Arakawa and Yohji Yamamoto professed a flat refusal to make clothes for women who weren't fragile and thin, whose chests and hips were barely discernable through the fabric.
That aesthetic went out when the health and exercise boom came in about seven years ago - the new Japanese woman, according to the fashion critic Ikuko Hirayama, is: "strong, robust, bursting with energy. She takes care of her body but is not obsessed with being thin. She's proud of her biceps and also proud of her sexuality." Accordingly, the most popular relaxation sport for single working women nowadays is "boxercising," or the combination of boxing moves plus aerobics, which is said to increase adrenaline flow by 80 percent and is an ideal way to blow off aggression and stress.
In stark contrast, it's the men who want to be slender, vulnerable and protected. Young males between the ages of 18 and 30 make up the slimmest segment of the population and the ideal fashion weight as decreed by the apparel industry is 57 kilograms, or about 125 pounds, for a height of 175 centimeters, or 5 feet 8 inches. Many men try to adhere to that figure and some claim they want to be even skinnier.
Twenty-five-year-old Junichi Shirakawa, who works at the denim boutique 45 RPM, said that his goal is to get his weight down from 57 to 55 kilograms, although his height is 182 centimeters. "Being really skinny is essential, not just for fashion and work purposes but also because girls seem to go for thin guys," he said.
Both Shirakawa and his girlfriend like the fact that she weighs more than he does, and is the leader of the couple. "She's a lot stronger than I am, can lift heavy things and go drinking until dawn. I admire that about her, and feel protected when I'm around her," he said. Older than he by five years, it was Shirakawa's girlfriend who made the approach, started the dating process and decided what course their relationship would take.
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