Women in boardrooms: Under 4% of Japan's top firms are on track

Blue chips make slow progress toward goal of 30% representation by 2030

Women are still only a small share of board members at Japan's top companies. (Photo by Yo Inoue)

NATSUKO NAKAMURA, Nikkei senior staff writer, and TOKIO MURAKAMI, Nikkei staff writer

August 5, 2023 23:28 JST

TOKYO -- Top listed companies in Japan still have a long way to go toward a government goal of putting more women in oversight positions, Nikkei research shows.

Of the roughly 1,800 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime market, just 68, or 3.7%, had met the 30% target for female directors, auditors and accounting advisers, based on disclosures for fiscal 2022.