Women’s Empowerment in Japan: Reflections on Government Policy and Personal Experience
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
5:45 PM - 6:30 PM (Eastern Time)
Location: Furman Hall 324
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About the Event
Minister Masako Mori, a well-known advocate in Japan for women’s rights and empowerment, will hold an informal conversation with Adjunct Professor Bruce Aronson, senior advisor to the Japan Center, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, about policy challenges and her own experience as a legal professional and member of parliament.
Please note this in-person event is open only to NYU ID holders.
About the speaker
Masako Mori is special advisor to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in charge of women’s empowerment. She is also a lawyer and three-term member of the House of Councillors in the Diet, the upper house of Japan’s parliament, from Fukushima Prefecture. Before her current position in government, she held other senior positions including minister in charge of support for women’s empowerment and child-rearing and minister of justice. She also has held leadership positions in the House of Councillors and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. She has been closely involved in reconstruction and recovery after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster. She holds a law degree from Tohoku University and was a visiting fellow at the NYU School of Law in 2003.
About the host
Bruce Aronson is senior advisor to the Japan Center of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. He has been a tenured professor of law at universities in the United States (Creighton University) and Japan (Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo). Prior to beginning his academic career, he served as a corporate partner at the law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York. Professor Aronson twice received Fulbright grants to be a senior research scholar at the University of Tokyo and at Waseda University, and was a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan. Other experience in Japan serving as an independent director of Eisai Co. Ltd.. His main area of research is comparative corporate governance with a focus on Japan and Asia. Publications include a textbook, Corporate Governance in Asia: A Comparative Approach (with J. Kim, Cambridge University Press, 2019).