Fashionable talk

Apr 01, 1998

<p>Stock buy-backs and option schemes on the tip of everyone's tongue in Tokyo. But few want to actually make a move</p>

Japanese companies are copycats,' says Yumi Asahara, managing director at Technimetrics in New York. 'If one is doing something then more will follow.' Asahara's seen it all before. She's been in Japanese investor relations for some nine years now and in that