To improve the women's toilet environment
Rep. Inoue repeatedly calls for
On 9 September, the Government of Japan held the first meeting of a liaison conference of relevant ministries and agencies on the issue of long queues for women's toilets at train stations, airports, commercial facilities and public facilities, with the aim of improving the situation. It confirmed that it would proceed with inspections and reviews of standards for the number of toilets installed, and issued a notice to organisers of large-scale events requesting them to ensure that there are sufficient temporary toilets for women. This issue was repeatedly raised in the Diet by Satoshi Inoue, a member of the upper house of the Japanese Communist Party (a candidate for proportional representation in the upper house), who had been demanding improvements from the Government.
The notice requests that for events such as fireworks displays, festivals and outdoor festivals, a balanced number of toilets should be installed so that there is no difference in waiting times between men and women, that toilets in nearby facilities should be used, and that permanent men's toilets should be temporarily converted to women's toilets.
The queues for women's toilets were caused by the fact that there are fewer women's toilets than men's toilets, even though women spend more time using them, and the challenge was to eliminate the gender disparity in toilets.
In May 2023, Mr Inoue asked the Cabinet Committee of the House of Councillors to increase the number of women's toilets and eliminate queues; in 2012, he also asked for improvements to the toilet facilities at the Noto Peninsula Earthquake, and in December of the same year, the government revised the operational guidelines for evacuation centres, specifying that the ratio of toilets should be 1:3 for men and women The government also made it clear that the ratio of male to female toilets should be 1:3 in the revised guidelines.
Based on this, Mr Inoue, in a question in April this year, stated that the standards to be met in evacuation centres are naturally necessary in everyday life and called for improvements to the ratio of male to female toilets on the occasion of new or renovated public facilities and other events. In June of the same year, he called for more women's toilets in schools that serve as shelters.
by wolframite