Female Kyogen performers hold a press conference
December 7, 2022, Tokyo, Japan - The first female Kyogen performer Junko Izumi and Kyoko Izumi speaks at a press conference as female performers ask gender equality in Japanese performance arts at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. Kyogen is Japanese traditional comic play and UNESCO's world intangible cultural heritage. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO)