TOKYO (Bloomberg): A daughter of the famous Japanese shareholder activist Yoshiaki Murakami has started a politics training school for young women mainly funded by the family’s investment firms, as it seeks to encourage more of them to enter a field in the country that has long been dominated by men.
Almost 200 people applied for 10 to 20 available openings in the school’s nine-day programme, which comes with a 1 million yen (US$7,190) scholarship, Murakami Family Foundation President Rei Murakami Frenzel (pic) said in an interview Monday (Nov 14).
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