1. General information: BPW Ｊａｐａｎ Please add your logo (if you have one) No. of Members: ３８１ No. of Clubs: ２１ including associates Website: .

1. General information: BPW Ｊａｐａｎ

Please add your logo (if you have one)

No. of Members: ３８１No. of Clubs: ２１ including associatesWebsite: 　 http://www.bpw-japan.jpCurrent President: 　Ｈａｎｉｗａ　ＮａｔｏｒｉEmail: [email protected]

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2. Highlight 2011- 2013 – BPW Japan

Support for women victims of that East Japan disaster (in 2011) 　 by funding to rebuild their business

Start of EPD campaign in 2012 Auspice Japanese Women Leadership Initiative

with Fish Family Fundation (since 2009) Organize the Side Event for 57 UN CSW (2013) Send internship students to CSW (since 2004)

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3. Main Activities (EPD - Equal Pay Day) – BPW Japan

EPD Campaing since 2012 2012= April 16 → appeale in front of Tokyo Central

Station → coverage by media Yomiuri & Nikkei 2013= April 15 → in Tokyo and some local cities 2014= April 13 → demonstration by 11 clubs

4. Main Activities (WEPs - Women’s Empowerment Principles) – BPW Japan

Organized Fora and Meetings with Department for Gender Equality, the Cabinet Office and other Organization to make them undererstand

Participate Special Session for 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 WEPs held by Department

for 　 　　　　　　　　　　 Gender Equallity

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5. Young BPW Activities – BPW Japan

Young Speech Contest to give chances for young women to study how to inform their message to audience

Work together for their experience with senior Student internship to UN CSW to study about

international relations

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6. Challenges – BPW Japan

Fundrasing for more activites L ｏｂｂ ing for the elimination of gender gap ｓ

to government and …

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7. Best Practices – BPW Japan

Learned from adversity of the mega disaster that the key to reduce risks and victims should be women’s empowerment and gender eqality

To inform our serious experience ---published a book what women did at the time ---reported at the side event of 56 CSW ---required to our government to submit the

Resolution and items for the Agreed Conclusion about [natural disaster and women] to 58 UN CSW (succeeded)

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BPW Federation / Aff. Club