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FEMALE

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 29, 2013
Bureaucrat to be first female aide to leader
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appoints senior bureaucrat Makiko Yamada as his official secretary, the first time in history a woman as ever held the post.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 22, 2013
22 of 105 female hopefuls win seats
Twenty-two of the 105 women who ran in Sunday's House of Councilors election won seats, up five from the previous Upper House election in 2010.
EDITORIALS
Jun 2, 2013
Database for female executives
The government wrongly assumes that creating a database of successful women for companies searching for executives will somehow benefit all female workers.
JAPAN / Society
May 24, 2013
Judo federation probes exec's alleged sexual misdeed against female athlete
The All Japan Judo Federation is probing allegations that a top female judoka was the target of an inappropriate sexual advance in December 2011 by a director of the body.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 17, 2013
11 women in Diet decry Hashimoto
A bipartisan group of female lawmakers Thursday called for Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto to retract and apologize for his abrasive comments justifying the sexual enslavement of females during the war and suggesting that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa make use of legal brothels.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Apr 13, 2013
Aichi tries to hang on to female doctors
Starting from April, female doctors with children at Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, who need shorter working hours to care for their young will have the option of working 20 or 30 hours a week, instead of the regular 40 hours.

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