Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa (R) and Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma rub their faces during a question and answer session at a parliamentary committee in Tokyo February 5, 2007. Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday Yanagisawa should stay in his post despite a furore over his reference to women as "birth giving machines", but pressure to resign looked unlikely to fade. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa (JAPAN)