NIKKO, Japan --The U.K.'s ambassador to Tokyo has called on Japan to increase female representation in business and politics in order to remain a "strong partner."
"It really matters to us that Japan continues to grow as an economy [and is] using all of the resources available to it," Julia Longbottom, the U.K.'s first female ambassador to Japan, told Nikkei Asia in a recent interview. "Until women genuinely feel able to step forward and be treated as individuals with the same talent and potential as the next person ... things aren't going to change."
