Akihiro Suzuki (right), a member of the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, bows to Ayaka Shiomura, a fellow assembly member, to apologize for his sexist jeer during a recent event, at Tokyo city hall on Monday. Suzuki, a member of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party, admitted Monday he had been responsible for a sexist taunt shouted at the young assemblywoman in a debate on motherhood. Photo: AFP