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This article analyzes Japanese political discourse, and especially politicians’ controversial statements about gender, which exhibits many elements of impoliteness. The purpose of this study is to identify how the discourse is legitimized. Van Leeuwen’s grammar of legitimation was employed to identify the strategies used in Japanese political discourse. As a result, these strategies were classified as authorization, moral evaluation, rationalization, and mythopoesis, which are Van Leeuwen’s framework of legitimation. And also other strategies were found, which I named questioning, emphasizing, and inner and outer. In this study, only the legitimation strategies were analyzed, however, this perspective of seeing the discourse is necessary for Japanese language education in the future.