"The kimono traders
Japanese housewives have ditched their traditional subservient image for the world of currency trading – influencing both international markets and Japan’s economy. Leo Lewis reports from Tokyo
In an elegant café overlooking Shiba Park in Tokyo, Ritsuko Shiono looks up from her book to check the foreign-exchange spot rates on her pink, sequin-dashed mobile phone. She is particularly interested in the Turkish lira. Meanwhile, 5,400 miles away in Ankara, the Turkish central bank is in panic mode because of Ritsuko – and the thousands of Japanese women like her who have quietly seized control of global currency markets."
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