Men's Child-Care Leave Crusader Vacates Diet Seat After Aadmitting Affair

TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 12: Lower House member Kensuke Miyazaki apologises in a news conference on February 12, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. A ruling Liberal Democratic Party Lower House member who planned to be the first Diet member to take paternity leave said that he will resign his seat, acknowledging an extramarital affair while his wife Megumi Kaneko, also a lower house member was about to give birth. On Feburary 10, five days after Kaneko gave birth to a baby boy, the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported that Miyazaki spent a night with a model in his home in Kyoto six days before the birth. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)