Monday, May 4, 2015
4:30pm – 5:45pm Seminar
5:45pm - 6:15pm Reception
Masako Mori (Liberal Democratic Party) is in her second term as a member of House of Councillors of Japan’s Diet (roughly equivalent of U.S. Senate). She represents Fukushima prefecture. From December 2012 to September 2014, she served as Minister in charge of Support for Women's Empowerment and Child-Rearing, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety, Minister of State for Declining Birthrate and for Gender Equality in the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. As a central policy maker in Abe Administration’s “womenomics,” she will discuss the progress on women’s empowerment in Japan and the road ahead.
