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Japan business lobby getting first female officer

Haruno Yoshida

TOKYO -- A woman will join the leadership of Keidanren this June for the first time in the almost 70 years since Japan's most powerful business lobby came into existence.

     Haruno Yoshida will become one of the vice chairmen of Keidanren's board of councilors. The 50-year-old is currently the head of the local unit of British telecommunications giant BT Group.

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