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Womenomics in Japan

Womenomics in Japan

Japan faces a demographic time-bomb. Could the answer be Womenomics?

Witness History · BBC World Service

March 2, 202014m 5s

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Show Notes

One of the toughest challenges facing Japan’s economy is that its population is ageing rapidly and its workforce is shrinking dramatically. But a Japanese investment analyst, Kathy Matsui, came up with a visionary idea to help her country, and she even invented a new word for it: Womenomics. The answer, according to her, was to tap into the talent of half the population. Kathy Matsui speaks to Alejandra Martins.

(Photo: Kathy Matsui. Courtesy of Goldman Sachs)