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India gets first female monorail drivers

MUMBAI, India - Pooja Keni of Mumbai Monorail, one of India's first three female monorail drivers, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News on Feb. 12, 2014, in the western Indian city. The 23-year-old is one of the women who form part of the first batch of monorail captains. The monorail, India's first, began service in early February.

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(3)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

OSAKA, Japan - Noriko Fujibayashi, who is among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, boards a bullet train at JR Shin-Osaka Station on June 20.

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(1)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

TOKYO, Japan - Mika Yamamoto (R), a bullet-train driver on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, and her younger sister Asami, a conductor, speak to reporters on a platform at JR Tokyo Station on June 20 before boarding a Shin-Osaka-bound Hikari bullet train. Mika is among four women who made their debut the same day as the first female drivers on the line linking Tokyo and Osaka.

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(2)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Umeda (L) and Azusa Sakaguchi check their watches on a platform at JR Nagoya Station in central Japan on June 20 before driving a bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line linking between Tokyo and Osaka. They are among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the line.

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Women receive certificates to drive Shinkansen

OSAKA, Japan - Rumi Yamashita (L) and Miyuki Fukuzawa hold their certifications for driving Sanyo Shinkansen bullet trains, which they received Aug. 17 from West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) at the company's Osaka branch. Yamashita, 27, and Fukuzawa, 29, who are the country's first female Shinkansen drivers, will make their debut driving Kodama trains leaving Shin-Osaka on Aug. 18.

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Tokyo sightseeing Hato Bus has first female driver

Yumiko Nojiri on April 5 becomes the first female driver of Hato Bus, Tokyo's famous sightseeing bus operator. Nojiri, who has driven trucks, trailers and other large vehicles for nine years, received her bus license last August. Hato Bus begun to hire women drivers in response to the revised equal opportunity employment law that went into force April 1.

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(2)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Umeda (L) and Azusa Sakaguchi check their watches on a platform at JR Nagoya Station in central Japan on June 20 before driving a bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line linking between Tokyo and Osaka. They are among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the line. (Kyodo)

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Merkel visits Daimler unit in Japan to see trucks for women

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) shakes hands with an employee of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., a subsidiary of German Daimler AG, at a Mitsubishi Fuso plant in Kawasaki, near Tokyo on March 10, 2015, during her visit to observe the assembly of a small hybrid truck developed for female drivers. Merkel was making her first visit to Japan in seven years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Merkel visits Daimler unit in Japan to see trucks for women

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) is briefed on a small hybrid truck developed for female drivers by an employee (L) of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., a subsidiary of German Daimler AG, at a Mitsubishi Fuso plant in Kawasaki, near Tokyo on March 10, 2015. Merkel was making her first visit to Japan in seven years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(3)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

OSAKA, Japan - Noriko Fujibayashi, who is among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, boards a bullet train at JR Shin-Osaka Station on June 20. (Kyodo)

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(1)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

TOKYO, Japan - Mika Yamamoto (R), a bullet-train driver on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, and her younger sister Asami, a conductor, speak to reporters on a platform at JR Tokyo Station on June 20 before boarding a Shin-Osaka-bound Hikari bullet train. Mika is among four women who made their debut the same day as the first female drivers on the line linking Tokyo and Osaka. (Kyodo)

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Women receive certificates to drive Shinkansen

OSAKA, Japan - Rumi Yamashita (L) and Miyuki Fukuzawa hold their certifications for driving Sanyo Shinkansen bullet trains, which they received Aug. 17 from West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) at the company's Osaka branch. Yamashita, 27, and Fukuzawa, 29, who are the country's first female Shinkansen drivers, will make their debut driving Kodama trains leaving Shin-Osaka on Aug. 18.

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Tokyo sightseeing Hato Bus has first female driver

Yumiko Nojiri on April 5 becomes the first female driver of Hato Bus, Tokyo's famous sightseeing bus operator. Nojiri, who has driven trucks, trailers and other large vehicles for nine years, received her bus license last August. Hato Bus begun to hire women drivers in response to the revised equal opportunity employment law that went into force April 1.