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The article reports on the scheduled staging of the delayed 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan from July to August 2021 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Also cited are the measures adopted by Games officials to prevent infections during the event like mask mandates, social-distancing procedures, and frequent testing, and the growing anti-Olympics sentiment of the Japanese people.

But to meet the Keidanren goal, Koshi says, Japan will need about 9,000 new female directors within the decade. Future Tense World economic forum: Economy Naomi Koshi remembers handing out flyers outside a train station during her second mayoral campaign in 2016, when an older man walked up to her and said, "You are too strong for a woman", and kicked her. The two face different challenges, but Koshi is a role model for Nomura. [Extracted from the article]

The article examines whether the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan can be safely conducted in July 2021 after being postponed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also cited are the claim by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike that the staging of the games will signal the defeat of the virus, the continuous surge in infections, and the comments by personalities like professor Jules Boykoff and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach on the games.

The article discusses the impact on Japan of the COVID-19 outbreak. Topics covered include the potential economic impact if the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are canceled or relocated, its cost to businesses that have ploughed vast resources into securing rights deals and sponsorships, and its political cost on Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose Cabinet has seen a decline in popularity, partly due to its handling of COVID-19.

So it's no surprise that Makiko Ono--who on March 24 becomes CEO of Suntory Beverages and Food, part of a conglomerate best known for producing Jim Beam and Maker's Mark--has advice on a post-libation restorative. Worth some $10.4 billion, Suntory is the most valuable company under female leadership in Japan, where less than 1% of the top stratum of listed firms have a woman as CEO. You don't rise to the top of Japan's most venerable whiskey company without the occasional hangover. [Extracted from the article]

When Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, stepped down in 2020, he hadn't quite achieved what he'd set out to. Those efforts were cut short on July 8 when Abe was killed while campaigning for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ahead of parliamentary elections. And ironically, Kishida may be more successful in pushing through Abe's agenda than Abe would have been. [Extracted from the article]

Twin sisters Anna and Mizuki Nakajima founded their mobile-gaming company coly inc. in 2014 to solve a problem they saw with games in Japan. In February, Mizuki, the president and CEO, and Anna, the vice president, led coly to an initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. But it's not just the narrative-driven games that are different at the Nakajimas' company: 25% of its board members are women, and women fill more than 70% of senior management positions. [Extracted from the article]