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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Satsuki Katayama is Japan’s first female finance minister, and also one of the few in her job in recent decades that previously worked as an official at the powerful bureaucracy. Katayama differs from most Japanese finance ministers this century whose careers before turning to politics were in areas such as private sector business, journalism or secretaries to politicians. She joined the ministry in 1982 and climbed the ranks, reaching a higher position in the influential budget bureau than any woman before her.
