1st female secretary to premier

1st female secretary to premier

TOKYO, Japan - Makiko Yamada (R), deputy director general for IT strategy at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, receives her letter of appointment from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to become one of Abe's secretaries at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2013. The 53-year-old senior official at the economy ministry is the first woman to serve as a prime ministerial secretary in postwar Japan.

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