Japanese women in managerial posts seek outside advice amid lack of role models

Women who have been promoted to managerial posts in Japan are increasingly seeking advice about their jobs from outside female mentors amid few in-house role models they can follow in the country's largely male-dominated industries.Momoko Kubota, 33-year-old section chief of a sales department at SoftBank Corp., is among such women who sought consultations about how to train male subordinates, using the company's system that was introduced from last November on a trial basis.She is the only woman in the 19-member department and while her male boss said that she should scold subordinates whe…READ FULL ARTICLE