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Dewi Sukarno, Owner of Pricey Fur Coat, Starts New Animal Welfare Party
The right-wing Japanese celeb starts a political party aimed at protecting the animals she doesn’t like to wear.
A popular entertainer in Japan says she’s running for office to protect the animals. However, her love of fur coats has many here raising their eyebrows at her seemingly newfound passion for four-legged creatures.
85-year-old Dewi Sukarno — full name Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno, and known professionally as Dewi Fujin (デヴィ婦人), or Madame Dewi — is a Japanese entertainer born in 1940 as Nemoto Naoko. The third wife of Indonesian resistance fighter and president Sukarno, she took Indonesian citizenship in 1965, six years after her marriage.
Sukarno is a common fixture on Japanese variety television. She’s also outspoken about her right-wing political opinions. In 2018, she agreed with a controversial article by Diet member Sugita Mio. Sugita deemed LGBTQ people “unproductive” members of society because they couldn’t have children.
She also once on-air blamed infertility on abortions. The pronouncement was so ludicrous that the program’s MC apologized for it during the program. Dewi denounced his apology in real-time, insisting she was right.
