Claire is also a fellow of Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative. How did you first become interested in women’s issues in Japan? I work for a large Japanese company, which has 4,000 ...

Many older single women in Japan are struggling to ... disposable workforce for businesses. In Japan, nonregular, or “hiseiki,” work is a blanket term that includes a variety of casual employment.

Women work less often and earn significantly less than men in Japan. We use panel data to investigate employment and earnings dynamics of single and married women over the life cycle and build a ...

"The question is how to make it easier for working women to take the steps necessary to be promoted, and to take greater responsibility under the same conditions as men." 20 percent of Japan's top ...

Government policies that support women in their work-family balancing act would help Japan remain a player in the global economy “IT is very difficult for women in Japan to balance raising children ...