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Finally, Lee Kuan Yew also speculated on the possibility of reintroducing polygamy as a way of increasing the `superior gene pool. Although polygamy was one of the thorny issues in early Singapore, against which activist womens groups had agitated, and which was subsequently outlawed by the Womens Charter, Lee Kuan Yew was reconsidering it as an option. Speaking to an audience of university students, he said that polygamy would provide the opportunity for the mentally and physically vibrant to reproduce. Citing the example of Kakuei Tanaka, the former prime minister of Japan, who had children both by his wife and his mistress, Lee commented that `the more Tanaka as there were in Japan, the more dynamic its society would be (The Sunday Times, 28 December 1986). From For the good of the nation: `Strategic egalitarianism in the Singapore context
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