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43. Sawako Noma
President and CEO, Kodansha
2005 rank: 31
Japan
After her husband died in 1987, Noma, 63, took over the publishing company founded by her grandfather. Since then she has boosted its revenues�to $1.3 billion last year�and pushed into electronic distribution via e-books, online ordering, and mobile phones.
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