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DIRECTORS

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 4, 2022
'Moonlight Shadow' director Edmund Yeo praises the Japanese work ethic and the dedication of producers
Though filmmaking is not a particularly popular career path in Malaysia, Edmund Yeo still managed to follow his dream of being a director.
BUSINESS
Mar 9, 2016
BOJ no closer to reaching target for more women in management
The Bank of Japan has made no progress in increasing the proportion of women in management positions in the past two years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 27, 2015
New rules are pushing Japanese corporations to tap more outside directors
More Japanese firms are appointing outside directors to strengthen their corporate governance, pushed by a revised law and new rules that are set to come into effect in the coming months.
EDITORIALS
Mar 16, 2015
A corporate governance cure-all?
New Tokyo Stock Exchange rules requiring all companies listed on its First and Second sections to have at least two independent outside directors on their board is in line with the Abe administration's push to beef up corporate governance as a way of luring more foreign investors.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2015
TSE to push listed firms into getting at least two outside directors
Japan Exchange Group Inc., which runs the Tokyo Stock Exchange, said it will push companies listed on the bourse to have two or more independent external directors appointed to their boards.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 3, 2014
A quarter century of Japanese films in review
In 25 years of reviewing Japanese films and interviewing Japanese filmmakers for this newspaper, I've written 1 million words, give or take a few. This is clearly something no normal person would do, but for me it beats working.
EDITORIALS
Jul 11, 2014
Outside directors alone won't help
More Japanese companies are appointing external directors to oversee their management after a number of scandals raised doubts about corporate governance in this country, but the question is whether 'outside' directors are qualified and separate from insider interests.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 5, 2014
Mizuho to heed frontline troops
Mizuho Financial Group Inc.'s newly chairwoman says she wants to be receptive to the opinions of those running its frontline operations to boost the lender's oversight structure in the wake of last year's yakuza loan scandal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 28, 2014
Toyota directors to share ¥1.5 billion in 19% pay bump
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to boost pay for directors by 19 percent for the last fiscal year after the company earned record profit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2014
Mizuho names Ota chairwoman
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. said Tuesday that former economic and fiscal policy minister Hiroko Ota will become chairwoman of the board of directors in June to enhance its corporate governance, following its core banking unit's involvement in loans to gangsters.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 17, 2013
Revisiting the works of director Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike is one of the few Japanese filmmakers now working, Takeshi Kitano and Hayao Miyazaki being two others, who enjoy a measure of recognition outside Japan's insular film world. Though hardly a household name in Kansas, Miike has long been a favorite with the international Asian Extreme Cinema crowd, who first loved him for his bad-boy violence and black-comic weirdness: The bodyguard with the dart-shooting vagina in "Fudoh: The New Generation" (1997), the psychotic former dancer who saws off her middle-aged lover's foot in "Audition" (1999) or the dancing corpses in "The Happiness of the Katakuris" (2001).

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