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Fumiko Hayashi
Mayor of the city of Yokohama
Mayor Hayashi was born in Tokyo in 1946 and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School. After working at companies such as Toyo Rayon Co., Ltd. (currently Toray Industries, Inc.) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (currently Panasonic Corporation), she joined a Honda dealer in 1977. In 1987, she joined BMW Tokyo Division (currently BMW Tokyo, Corp.). Since then, she has served as president of Fahren Tokyo K.K. (now Volkswagen Tokyo K.K.), president of BMW Tokyo, Corp., chairwoman and CEO of The Daiei, Inc., and President of Tokyo Nissan Auto Sales Co., Ltd.
Mayor Hayashi has been selected as one of Wall Street Journal"s "50 Women to Watch" and Forbes Magazine"s "The World"s 100 Most Powerful Women" in 2004, and Fortune Magazine"s "50 Most Powerful Women in Business: International" in 2008 among others.
She was elected mayor of Yokohama in July 2009. She also serves as a committee member of the Cabinet Office"s Gender Equality Bureau and an affiliate professor at Tokyo Jogakkan College.
Her many publications include "Shitsureinagara Sono Urikatadewa Monowa Uremasen" (Excuse me, you won't sell anything that way) (Akishobo), "Isshokenmeitte Suteki na Koto" (Trying hard is a wonderful thing) (Soshisha Publishing) and "Fushigi na Hodo Shigoto ga Umaku Iku Mou Hitokoto no Gokui" (The one extra word that makes work go smoothly) (Soshisha Publishing).
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