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Tokyo's Women

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North AmericaLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North America

Mariko Oi meets 5 working women in Tokyo, including a successful footballer, a stay-at-home mum and a club hostess - to assess how Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of "Womenomics" is working. Japan has to address the twin issues of a declining birth rate, and a lack of women in the work place - will it find a way? Show less

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