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Correspondents say the comments will cause further embarrassment to the Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, after a series of recent gaffes by members of his party:


Yoshitada Konoike, state minister in charge of deregulation zones and disaster management, said the parents of a boy suspected of killing a small child should be beheaded.

Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said childless women should be denied welfare payments in old age.

A former cabinet minister Seiichi Ota said at a debate on Japan's declining birth rate that at least gang rapists had a healthy appetite for sex.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda suggested that women who are raped are "asking for it" by the way they dress.