Japan’s all-male boards face gender reckoning
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Japan’s all-male boards face gender reckoning

This article, focusing on the appointment of Yuko Kawamoto, a professor at Waseda Business School, as a board director at Softbank, looks into the number of Japanese companies still lacking diversity at board level, and discusses "box ticking" versus appointing capable non-executive directors.

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A mission to help Japan’s women back into the workforce
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A mission to help Japan’s women back into the workforce

This article highlights the unorthodox career of ACCJ member, Cynthia Usui, who first entered the workforce in Tokyo after 17 years of being a full time mother. It shows the remarkable progress Cynthia has made in her career since accepting the lowly hourly rate as a telephone operator at a members club, and how she has channeled her experience to help and encourage others. A MUST READ.

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