By Anton Bridge TOKYO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Japan Airlines' incoming president Mitsuko Tottori joins a sparse cohort of female executives leading Japanese firms. While the number of all-male boards of directors in Japan Inc has fallen markedly in recent years, few women have been able to work their way up internally, highlighting the obstacles facing women aspiring to management. Out of 1,836 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's (TSE) "prime" market, only 15 firms, or less than 1%, were led by women, according to a Kyodo and Teikoku Databank study as of January 2023. One person has since stepped down. The proportion is higher at 8.3% for all Japanese companies including unlisted ones, but more than half of these female leaders had inherited a family business, according to a separate Teikoku Databank study released in November last year. Below are the 14 companies listed on the TSE's "prime" market led by women. At some firms the top executive is the president, at others it is the chief executive. Market capitalisation data is from LSEG. Company CEO Market Industry cap (yen) Yushin Precision Takayo Kotani 24.1 bn Industrial Equipment robotics YA-MAN Ltd Kimiyo Yamazaki 58.3 bn Beauty goods and cosmetics Stella Chemifa Aki Hashimoto 42.7 bn Chemicals Corp processing Takemoto Yohki Emiko Takemoto 9.7 bn Bottle manufacturer SUNNY SIDE UP Etsuko Tsugihara 8.9 bn Corporate PR GROUP teno. Holdings Hiroko Ikeuchi 2.4 bn Childcare services JAC Recruitment Hiromi Tazaki 112.3 bn Recruitment Trend Micro Eva Chen 1.2 trn Cybersecurity Poppins Corp Maiko Todoroki 11.6 bn Childcare services Midac Holdings Keiko Kato 51.6 bn Industrial waste disposal Imuraya Group Nobuko Nakajima 31.6 bn Food products Hyper Inc Makiko Mochizuki 2.8 bn IT services CMIC Holdings Keiko Oishi 50 bn Pharmaceutical development support SWCC Corporation Takayo Hasegawa 93.5 bn Power cables (Reporting by Anton Bridge; Editing by Miyoung Kim)
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2,447 JPY | +0.33% | +3.99% | 203M | ||
1,426 JPY | +1.78% | +4.09% | 251M | ||
1,252 JPY | +1.62% | +0.81% | 77.29M | ||
961 JPY | -2.36% | -1.33% | 336M | ||
789 JPY | -1.62% | -1.38% | 60.31M | ||
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690 JPY | +0.88% | +2.99% | 149M | ||
668 JPY | -2.62% | -1.76% | 63.31M | ||
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