Wednesday February 15, 2012

At this rate, Japan will sink into the sea. If Toyota is not healthy, then Japan is not healthy.

Masatomo Tanaka, a professor at the Institute of Technologists, a university that specializes in training engineers. (International Herald Tribune)

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    S7ro9kGm3aQ

    What exactly is the point of this?

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    Cat5

    What exactly is the point of this?

    It's a poignant statement about just how important toyota is, psychologically and economically, to japan.

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    stirfry

    japan's been sinking into the sea, metaphorically, for 20 years...toyota has little to do with it...nice overly dramatic quote though

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