Yuriko Koike, First Female Defense Minister of Japan

Former TV presenter Yuriko Koike, was appointed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as Japan's first-ever female defence minister after her predecessor Fumio Kyuma, was forced to quit over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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