Comments on: Failure? What Failure? The Truth of Japan’s Success

By: Lauren Summers Feels

Lauren Summers Feels — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:31:00 +0000

awesome and very interesting!

By: WhatSuccessJapan?

WhatSuccessJapan? — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:40:00 +0000

The following are Failures or Success you tell everyone please, especially your little fans of Japan:
7 Japanese Prime Ministers in 7 years. Has anyone ever seen any developed country change national leaders so frequently in peaceful time? Japan is the biggest joke of the world.
11 or 12 times of Mass money printing since 1990′s. Can your new Prime Minister Abe make it this time if the same old trick has been failing for 20 years?
Reports of food poisoning in Japan food manufacturing keep going up since 1990′s.
Reports of Lexus and Toyota’s out of control mechanical/software problems and the Toyota CEO of Japan had to stand up at the US Congress for inquiry and challenge.
Japan’s bad performance in the latest London Olympic.
Failures of most Japanese famous corporations such as Sanyo, Panasonic, Toshiba, ……….due to mismanagement, losing to Korean competition, and Japan’s inflated pride and overconfidence.
Toshiba has to ask for rescue from a Taiwan investor recently.
Japan’s nuclear plant disaster 2011. This disaster is not just a result of the earthquake. The nuclear plant has been having long time problems may be due to bad management or lack of operation funds, or both.
You should be able to list more than me if you want to.
It is the “what failure attitude” like yours which make Japan a continuous loser since 1990′s.
Keep being proud, keep feeling good, and keep falling behind, Mr. Japan.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000

Anyone economists here that track Japan on a regular basis?! I’m actually doing (have been doing for the past 8 months) a research on Japan’s current debt crisis. Just trying gather more opinions that’s all. Including the possible tax increase proposed by the PM.

By: Patrick Mobley

Patrick Mobley — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:19:00 +0000

so many good links. I would read then pause… oh look a link (click)… read some more… oh another link (click) and a link within a link (click click)… by the time I finished reading the article I had read about 6 or 7 articles total. completely awesome.

By: Leah Hicks

Leah Hicks — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:20:00 +0000

To say the least, the Japanese economy is surely doing better than the American one right now. -snark-

Liked this article :)

By: Madbeanman

Madbeanman — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:07:00 +0000

Im confused by your line of thinking Hashi. I mean a measure of purely economic wealth cant take into account non superficial things. There isn’t any room for emotions where capitalism is concerned so even if the country was full of sociopaths with porsches it would still be an economic success (and probably a lot more dangerous than it is).

Moving from Ireland, a country where poverty is becoming more and more obviously apparent on the streets to Japan where a train station has its own pet clothes store (there is not one in Ireland, I guarantee it) and the dogs are better dressed than I am, it may be superficial and there may be a looooooooad of problems but it is wealthy.