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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA?
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 21:16:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jun23.201535.22178@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>  Most of this is pure bunk, except for "more expensive","less well
>distributed", and "worse supported". American products are not of
>inferior design, advancement or quality. There wouldn't be so much outcry
>if some markets were "really" open.  Why isn't there American outcry
>against Germany? Because the difference between Germany and Japan is that
>American products can be sold in Germany, whereas Japan it's a different
>story. I'm surprised you even made this statement. I recently watched
>a show on PBS called "mini-dragons" that detailed the outcry against
>Japan in Austrailia for taking jobs away from workers. The showed footage
>of Austrailian workers protesting and throwing stones at a Japanese
>ship coming into port with consumer goods. They also showed Japanese
>rice farmers "destroying" a Chrysler because they didn't want foreign
>goods in the the Japanese market. The Japanese society still seems
>"closed" against outsiders. Examples were given in this show about
>how Filipino immigrants to Japan were not allowed in Japanese restaurants
>and stores because they didn't want foreigners in their country. A
>Japanese "hard copy" type show was shown in which the number one problem
>discussed was the 400,000 foreigners in Japan being a "problem". It seems
>the Japanese society thinks its sucess is built upon the idea of racial
>purity. We have racism in American too, but not of this scale, when
>400,000 foreigners are considered a problem. I think American should
>give up on pentrating the Japanese market and concentrate on Europe like
>Commodore does.

   This is not always true.  Strong, determined companies can succeed in
Japan.  The latest issue of U.S. News and World Report has an article on
one company in particular that has been enormously successful in competing
with the Japanese on their own turf: Motorola.

   I suggest you read this article.  It is very detailed, and is a very
upbeat article about how determined companies can succeed in Japan.  The
article also goes on to give reasons why American companies fail to 
succeed in Japan, and many of them are basic reasons.  For instance, some
companies just keep a small fraction of their workforce in Japan, and
wonder why they do not succeed there.  (If you expect to succeed in Japan,
you have to have a percentage of your workforce there equal to the 
percentage of your total sales that you expect to be from Japan).

   The article finally describes the rewards of going through the effort
of doing business in Japan.  Basically, it says that if you can succeed
in Japan, the rest of the world is a cakewalk.

>
>>>Regards Alan
>
>
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