Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa described women as "birth-giving machines" in a speech on the falling birthrate.
The number ofbirth-giving machinesand devices is fixed, so all we can ask is that they do their best per head," Yanagisawa reportedly apologized immediately and smoothed over the remarks.
If that's the real intention of dignitaries of government- then how can families, not only women, have hope for having children?