Seiko Hashimoto, who was selected as the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee's new president, is best known as a seven-time Olympian, but has also devoted herself to empowering women in Japan's male-dominated political world as a lawmaker and minister.A ruling Liberal Democratic Party House of Councillors member, Hashimoto worked as minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, as well as minister in charge of women's empowerment and gender equality, for nearly one and a half years before leaving the Cabinet to assume the new post. <READ FULL STORY HERE>Dubbed a "child of the Oly…READ FULL ARTICLE
