AS the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike is keenly aware that she is responsible for the lives and livelihood of the 14 million people who live in the metropolitan city. And, she's determined that any decision she makes will be for them, which includes about seven million women and girls.
She is also bent on introducing policies that encourage and enable women to play an active part in the economy, society and even politics. "So I want to introduce policies that will create an ideal future model that women can aspire to," she says.Born in 1952 in Hyogo Prefecture, Koike attended the region's Kwansei Gakuin University before graduating from Egypt's Cairo University in 1976.
File photo of Koike , as Defence Minister reviewing an honor guard at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo back in 2007. Photo: AFP "When the mayor of KL came to Japan some time back, he mentioned that KL had been experiencing bad floods and the same has been true of Tokyo, where we have been experiencing sudden torrential rains on a scale never seen before.
"So I set out to change mindsets. I launched a campaign during the summer ... calling on businessmen to do away with ties and also to unbutton their shirt collars – this way they will not have to turn up the air conditioning so much and energy consumption will go down.
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