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Asian shares gain Japan’s Nikkei tops 50,000 level, as Trump seeks trade deals
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Japan’s first female finance chief is a veteran on banking policy
Satsuki Katayama joined the Finance Ministry in 1982 and reached a higher position in the influential Budget Bureau than any woman before her.
Japan’s First Female Finance Chief Is Veteran on Banking Policy
Satsuki Katayama is Japan’s first female finance minister, and also one of the few in her job in recent decades that previously worked as an official at the powerful bureaucracy.