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EPISODE · Nov 5, 2025 · 17 MIN

Raising Japan’s female leaders

from Business Daily · host BBC World Service

We find out why the country Japan ranks so poorly in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index and hear about what’s being done to change thingsFrom bottom-up initiatives to raise the next generation of female entrepreneurs and businesses leaders and to the work being done by one of the country’s top educational institutions as it tries to shake off its men–only image. And will the country’s first female prime minister be the catalyst for change?If you'd like to get in touch with the programme, you can email us at [email protected] and presented by Phoebe Amoroso(Image: Yumiko Murakami, co-founder of the WPower fund, the first in Japan to focus solely on supporting female founders and women-empowerment businesses)

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