Hiroko Tashiro

Recent Articles by Hiroko Tashiro

September 25, 2009

Tokyo's Chances Fade for 2016 Olympics

Tokyo once was considered a front-runner to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Japan hasn't hosted a Summer Games since 1964, so Tokyo boosters could argue it was ...

September 25, 2009

Olympics 2016: Which City Will Win?: The Final Four-Chicago, Madrid, Rio, ...

Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo will make their pitches in Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to host the summer games

September 4, 2009

Recession Can't Stop Japan's Online Shoppers

It never rains but it pours for Japan's department store operators, once the driving force behind Japan's bubble-era consumerism. This summer already-flagging sales ...

September 2, 2009

Coolest New Inventions from Japan: Japan's 'Idea Products'

These novelty gadgets are popular with Japanese consumers and a big business for catalog and online merchants

July 22, 2009

Japanese Companies Address Baby Shortage

Japan, which has long fretted about its low birthrate, got limited good news when the government reported in June that the country's total fertility rate—the average ...

June 18, 2009

Rising Sons—and Daughters

Japan, which has long fretted about its low birthrate, got limited good news in June, when the government reported that married couples had an average 1.37 kids last ...

June 18, 2009

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May 8, 2009

Japan: Slowly Warming Up to MBAs

In Japan, it has never been easier to find an MBA program. Twenty years ago, only a few universities offered business administration courses, so most aspiring students...

January 4, 2009

Recession Puts More Pressure on Japan's Workers

In the last year or so, life appeared to be getting better for Japan's long-suffering workers. Sure, salarymen still toil long into the evening and are expected to ...