Founder and CEO, Europacifica Consulting

Naomi Fink

Founder and CEO

Europacifica Consulting

Macroeconomics

<p>As Lully Miura points out in a <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/pacnet-61-can-koike-change-japanese-politics" target="_blank">CSIS</a> Newsletter, the election of Yuriko Koike to the Tokyo governorship by over 10 million voters is a landmark event, and opens the door to structural change in Japan.  But can Koike’s appointment be the catalyst that lends badly-needed credibility to Abe’s programme to<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9a6582c-2972-11e6-8b18-91555f2f4fde.html#axzz4HdHm6HrD" target="_blank"> promote female participation in the workforce</a>?  There are some promising signals, but we argue that in the absence of a commitment to collect better empirical data on drivers behind existing…</p>

As Lully Miura points out in a CSIS Newsletter, the election of Yuriko Koike to the Tokyo governorship by over 10 million voters is a landmark event, and opens the door to structural change in Japan.  But can Koike’s appointment be the catalyst that lends badly-needed credibility to Abe’s programme to promote female participation in the workforce?  There are some promising signals, but we argue that in the absence of a commitment to collect better empirical data on drivers behind existing…

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