December 21, 2020 Masako Mori, chairperson of the LDP’s Special Committee for Promoting Women’s Active Participation, speaks at a joint meeting with the party’s First Cabinet Division on policy, chaired by Tsutomu Tomioka, right, in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday. The Yomiuri Shimbun/Asia News Network The Liberal Democratic Party scaled back wording on allowing each person in a married couple to keep his or her surname in a draft of governmental policies over gender equality on Tuesday. The ruling party held a joint meeting of its First Cabinet Division on policy and Special Committee for Promoting Women’s Active Participation at party headquarters in Tokyo, when a draft of the government’s fifth Basic Plan for Gender Equality was approved.