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Mariko Oi
Japanese journalist
Mariko Oi (大井 真理子, Ōi Mariko, born 14 December 1981) is a Japanese bilingual journalist based in Singapore, who has worked for the BBC since 2006, when she became the network's first Japanese reporter.[1][2]
She regularly presents Newsday and Business Today (formerly Asia Business Report) on BBC News Channel, which is broadcast to more than 400 million households worldwide, business segments on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.
As of 2021, she is the Asia Business correspondent.[3][4][5]
Early life and education
Oi is from the Setagaya ward of Tokyo. Her father works in transport.[6][7]
She attended the Sacred Heart School in Tokyo and then studied abroad at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne where she lived with a host family and learned English.[8][9][10] Interested in history, she wrote an article in 2013 criticising the Japan