The efforts in Japan are intended to overcome decades of unkept promises from political and business leaders to increase opportunities for Japanese women, who face some of the starkest inequality in the developed world
Naomi Koshi, left, and Kaoru Matsuzawa in their office in Tokyo, on Aug. 20, 2021. Koshi and Matsuzawa started a firm earlier this year to train women for board positions and match them with companies; Image: Shiho Fukada/The New York Times
TOKYO — When Naomi Koshi was elected in June to the board of one of Japan’s largest telecommunications companies, she became one of the few women in the country to reach the top of the corporate ladder.
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