(The Incredible Tokyo Bay)
Globally Influential Japanese?
[Updated on Dec. 1, 2011]
It cannot be Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, since his idea of 25% CO2 reduction was originally an idea of Foreign Minister Mr. Katsuya Okada.
It is Minister in Charge of Financial Affairs and Postal Reformation Mr. Shizuka Kamei that has changed the Koizumi Postal Privatization Policy and controls the world No.1 financial institute Japan Post Group.
But, the Japanese politician China expects, supports, and approves the most is without doubt Prime Minister Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, though his mentor Mr. Ichiro Ozawa is also ardently respected by Beijing.
Rather, I think it is Mr. Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation with its headquarters in Toyota City (Nagoya Area), Japan.
Mr. Toyoda should accelerate introduction of electric cars before tens of millions of cars in China start to emit CO2 and other undesired chemicals to the air.
Then, he might again make an appearance, say, in the Larry King Live as an honorable industry leader of the world, though Nissan is now chasing Toyota so closely in Japan.
Anyway, check CIA files about influential Japanese before judging Japan's elites.
SECTION I: Shanghai & Beijing in 1999
The Shanghai Airport was built with $450 million ODA provided by Japan in 1999.
(Wikipedia: "The airport was significantly funded by a 40-billion-yen (~450 million USD) Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Pudong_International_Airport )
The Beijing Airport was built with $330 million public aid from Japan, which accounted for 25% of the total $1.3 billion costs of the airport construction in 1999.
(Wikipedia: "The airport's 1999 extension (Construction of Terminal 2) was financed by ODA (Low interest loan) provided by the Japanese government"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Capital_International_Airport )
The Beijing Subway System No.2 was built with $220 million ODA from Japan, which accounted for 22% of the total $1 billion costs of the Subway system construction in 1999, while the Subway System No.1 was extended with $170 million ODA from Japan in 1991.
(Wikipedia: "On January 26, 1991, planning began on the eastward extension of Line 1 under Chang’an Avenue from Fuxingmen with the receipt of 19.2 billion yen low-interest, development assistance loan from Japan."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Subway )
After WWII, especially, after restoring relationship with China in 1970's, Japan donated, provided, and offered a huge amount of money to China, which the Chinese Government seldom made public to the Chinese citizens (which is why you should not blindly believe what the Chinese Communist Party says about Nanjing of 1937...):
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Japanese Loan to China
Reuters, Published: March 21, 1991
TOKYO, March 20— Japan released $318 million last week in aid to China, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The loan, which was signed on Friday in Beijing, is part of a five-year, $5.95 billion package of Japanese aid to China. Similar amounts were released in November and December. The latest loan bears interest of 2.5 percent and the repayment period is 30 years, including a 10-year grace period. The money will finance the construction of roads, railroads, airports and utilities, the statement said.----------
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/21/business/japanese-loan-to-china.html?pagewanted=1
Until fiscal 2000, Japan provided $2.2 billion of ODA for China, which was used for nine projects to construct express highways over 1200 km (700 miles).
Japan also provided $550 million for China's expressway construction through the Export-Import Bank of Japan.
While China was not an economic power admired by Wall Street, Japan provided total $30 billion aid to China through 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and even 2000's.
(http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~nippon/jogbd_h12/jog146.html )
China should not have its Naval fleet sail around the Japanese islands, foolishly and childishly trying to threaten Japan and the U.S. as it did recently.
Even in 1920's and 1930's, the Empire of Japan helped build various modern infrastructures in and around Shanghai, though the Imperial Army and Navy fought back against invading Chinese troops, numerically several times larger, sacrificing some city facilities.
SECTION II: Global TV Shipments
You may watch the World Cup Succor games on TV.
Globally, makers delivered 211 million TV sets in 2009. And, the trend is with the flat panel TV set, such as an LCD TV.
But, no companies in Europe, North American, and China cannot compete with Japan and South Korea in this industry sector.
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Global LCD TV Shipments Reached 146M Units in 2009, Faster Growth Than 2008
Table 2: Q4‘09 Worldwide TV Brand Rankings by Revenue Share
Rank...Brand...................Share Q4'09
#1 Samsung (Korea)................23.6%
#2 LGE (Korea)..............13.0%
#3 Sony (JAPAN).................11.5%
#4 Panasonic (JAPAN)..............8.0%
#5 Sharp (JAPAN)..................5.4%
# Others................40.4%----------
http://www.displaysearch-japan.com/release/2010/02/r23.html
Everybody has or uses a TV in the world.
But, only three Japanese companies and two Korean makers provide total 60% of all the flat TV sets used in the world.
Of course, Japan has provided funds and technologies for development of the electronics industry of Korea in these decades.
But, those Japanese economists who have never worked in TV factories or learnt TV-related technologies are singing with Wall Street economists, "Japan is over! Japan is out! Japan is defeated!"
The truth is that America is over, out, and defeated in the TV industry competition since decades ago.
If America has a reasonable TV set maker, tens of thousands of Americans, unemployed today, must have a decent job.
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I had a portable mono color TV set when I was a student (as I was a poor student enjoying some NHK public broadcasting station's programs and animations on this Sony TV).
I took it out as the garbage when I moved and decided to study a certain subject in real (though I bought anew a special Sony radio set to listen to broadcasting from various countries).
Even today, students and professors do not need a TV set but books to study a certain subject in real.
That is why I do not respect those professors making a TV appearance so often.
Indeed, a high school, a noodle shop or a fast food shop, and a TV station have been three major stages in life for high school girls for decades in Japan.
An educational TV program is indeed wanted to stop an obscurantist policy malicious politicians might promote with help from super rich men and a sort of the Mafia calling themselves elites.
( http://www.karenlynngorney.com/stephanie.htm
Saturday Night Fever, one of symbolic songs at a change of the era...)
Joh 4:30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
Joh 4:31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
Joh 4:32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Joh 4:33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.