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The CFO: ‘Our ultimate mission is the protection of lives’, says finance chief of Japan’s Weathernews Inc

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Garnet Roach

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Masanori Yoshitake talks weather, climate and society, ramping up IR and taking investors from a financial return to an emotional one . . .

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