Honda names first foreigner, female to top managementhttp://dailyeurope.org/2014/02/24/honda-names-first-foreigner-female-to-top-management/Honda Motor Co named the first foreigner and first female to its all-Japanese, all-male roster of board members and operating officers on Monday, helping it catch up with rival Japanese carmakers in diversifying its executive ranks.
Japan's third-biggest car maker named Issao Mizoguchi, a Brazilian of Japanese descent and senior vice president at Honda South America, as one of its 23 operating officers. Honda also appointed Hideko Kunii, a professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology, to its 13-member board of directors.
