标题: Made in Japan [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-12-2012 15:48 标题: Made in Japan I will finish the third in this series (Made in China) tomorrow.
The hollow men; The deindustrialisation of Japan may be neither as complete nor as damaging as feared. Economist, June 9, 2012. http://www.economist.com/node/21556596
Quote:
"According to Ulrike Schaede, professor of Japanese business at the University of California in San Diego, about one-fifth of Japanese manufacturing already takes place outside Japan. For electronics, the proportion is more than 30%, and for cars just over half.
"Industrial decline in Japan has been much less rapid than in some other rich countries. According to OECD data, in 2000-08 manufacturing employment in Japan fell by about one-tenth, compared with about one-fifth in America and a quarter in Britain.
"A shrinking population means a dwindling domestic market. Corporate taxes are high, and the labour market rigid. And as others race to sign bilateral and regional free-trade arrangements, Japan is largely a spectator.
"So for some, keeping production in Japan remains attractive. In May Toyota’s Mr Toyoda promised to keep large facilities in Japan. Masami Doi, a Toyota spokesman, says that of the 9.6m vehicles it will make this year, 3.4m will be made in Japan, with nearly half of them to be exported.
Note:
(a) The essay is--today!--translated into Chinese.
ponderous (adj; Latin ponder-, pondus weight):
"1: of very great weight
2: unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size" www.m-w.com
(b) Yuki KUBOSHIMA
, which (a) incorrectly translates as 久保岛 由纪.