Business / Corporate Aug 18, 2014

Top-paid Nikkei 225 female exec shows Japan gender hurdles

Only one female executive made it to the top-earner list of the Nikkei 225 companies last year. She is an American who lives in New York. Nicole Seligman, president of Sony Corporation of America and Sony Entertainment Inc., is the only female among 185 executives ...

Business Aug 12, 2014

Only 7.4 percent of Japanese companies have female leader

by Masaaki Kameda

Fewer than one in 14 Japanese companies has a female president, a survey has shown, and more than half of the women inherited the role from a relative. Credit research agency Teikoku Databank examined the records of the nation's 1,175,505 registered companies and found that ...