What is Hesokuri?
Jan 20, 2011 Japanese housewives’ secret savings ‘at 3-year low’ TOKYO – THE ‘secret savings’ of Japanese housewives hit a three-year low in 2010 as they were forced to compensate for slumping family incomes with the hidden reserves, according to a survey released on Thursday. The value of ‘hesokuri’ – the cash and investments that …