First Female Pilot and Top Gun

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/24/asia/japan-first-woman-fighter-pilot-intl/index.html

Japan has appointed their first female pilot as they strive to make a greater attempt to get gender equality. The government is trying to gain more equality in a male dominated nation. She is 1st Lt Misa Matsushima who is 26 and joined the the Japan Air Defense Force after graduating from the National Defense Academy in 2014. In Japan 13,707 women serve making up 6.1% of the Japanese forces. The JASDF did not accept women into their ranks until 1993 but women were not allowed to fly fighter pilots until the ban on them was lifted in 2015. The Prime Minister decided that they would focus more to empower women and decided to call it the "womenomics" approach. Japan is modernizing and it is amazing!