Japan’s Gender Gap Index Shows High Inequality

21 June 202222 June 2022

By Honoka Karikomi

A man with his hands under a set of scales. One side of the scales shows a man symbol, and the other side shows a woman symbol. This symbolises the tense imbalance of Japan's gender gap. — Source: Huffington Post Japan

Through the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and a period of rapid economic growth, Japan has grown to become the third largest economy in the world by GDP. Thanks to its thunderous automobile and electronics industries and bold economic reforms of the 1960s, its global position has risen considerably since the immediate post-war period.

However, there is an area which Japan still lags behind in compared to the Western world: the Gender Gap. According to the World Economic Forum, in 2021 Japan’s Gender Gap Index (GGI), which measures the levels of equality between men and women in a country, ranked 120th out of 156 countries. In this article, we will delve into the current situation of gender inequality in Japan, and how this is affecting Japanese businesses.

Innovative Sustainability: How 5 Japanese Companies are Implementing SDGs

25 May 202214 June 2022

By Kana Kono

The 14th of May was World Fair Trade Day. World Fair Trade Day, organised by the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO), is a day dedicated to thinking about and raising awareness of “alternative solutions to the planet’s economic and ecological challenges”.
Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, are an increasingly important set of goals for our planet to achieve sustainability, peace and prosperity. In the United Nations’ 2030 agenda, the following 17 SDGs were put forth, with aims to achieve them 2030.

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Japan’s Gender Gap Index Shows High Inequality

By Honoka Karikomi

Innovative Sustainability: How 5 Japanese Companies are Implementing SDGs

By Kana Kono

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