JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
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kaminarikeizai
If reviving economy is the top priority, first ban local and international Haken (dispatch workers) in Japan. These days’ companies are not hiring qualified foreigners, who are living in Japan with genuine visa (permanent residency or spouse visa) for overseas marketing, finance, IT and other jobs. Companies are hiring people from overseas (cheap labor countries) and these people come to Japan for 6 months to 2 years with the help of haken-gaisha (placement agency). With the help of bogus (fraud) companies they get working visa of Japan. After completion their contract period, these workers also replaced by new haken-workers from overseas.
Posted in: Hatoyama says reviving economy top priority
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kaminarikeizai
Yes, Japan was in the same show after the war.
In the current business practice, unplanned outsourcing is the biggest threat and danger for the society. We can see global economic imbalances everywhere. Rich nations and poor nations both will suffer this outsourcing in the future.
If countries do not have manpower or other resources, can go for outsourcing and it is the best option for the society. But it is danger to neglect your own resources and manpower, start to outsource a cheap labor country in name of cost-cut, blindly import cheap products or sending backend work to overseas. After using a cheap labor country for some years, move to other cheap labor country, so on………, just for the sake of greed. I do not like such kind of globalization.
Japanese companies never hire a person who changed job more than 2 times. I could not understand why these greedy companies are moving their business from one nation to another nation to make a cheap product.
Posted in: Japan's jobless rate dips to 5.5% in August
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kaminarikeizai
In last 8 years many call-center, IT and financial research jobs outsourced to cheap labor countries from Japan. Nowadays, Japanese city garbage poly bag is even not ‘Made in Japan’.
It is foolish to send jobs (including insurance and financial data entry) to cheap labor countries in name of 'cost cutting'.
This is not a right way to achieve globalization target. Provide proper education and technical guidance to all cheap labor countries so they can solve their own problems (including global warming). Do not outsource for your greed and do not create a new kind of global economic imbalances.
Posted in: Japan's jobless rate dips to 5.5% in August
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kaminarikeizai
Thanks to recession shopping in a time of recession. Good luck Nomura Holdings Inc. ;-)
Posted in: Nomura's annual loss swells to Y709.4 billion
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kaminarikeizai
Rajkumar, thanks for the statistical data especially American poverty data. In a Japanese company’s 'fat cat executives' (mostly high-school pass out) can not understand, until they compare themselves with the American data. They only know how to sell their out dated machinery products to India and China with 40%-50% profit.
Posted in: Hitachi forecasts Y700 bil loss; to cut 7,000 jobs
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kaminarikeizai
Thank god! Honda does not force its UK employee to buy a Honda car.
Posted in: Honda UK plant shuts down Friday for 4 months
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kaminarikeizai
I think India can do better business with Africa or others. But first India should buy expensive Japanese technology or US technology to build strong business foundation in India. Give better quality to world, if you negotiate with technology cost, you have to compromise with quality. Forget short term (one time) profit, think long term stability.
This is ther generation of Blue ray Disc. Not Videotape. Sell latest Blue ray Disc to Africa also, if they can give you better price. Do not discriminate people or nation.
Posted in: Sony to close factory in France
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kaminarikeizai
Who will buy this expensive new accord? 1000 unit sales a month is a very big target in Japan. If Honda successfully sales 500 units, it means Japanese are not worrying about this recession.
Posted in: Honda to release new Accord
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kaminarikeizai
Don’t make it controversial. It’s just a shrine, where people are doing worship. People, who died for their country, should be respectable in their country. Many Japanese soldiers body were not found in World War II. What’s wrong with somebody if he/she pray ancestor in the Yasukuni Shrine. I have same sympathy with the people who were killed by Japanese army.
Shrine is not bad but war is bad. Why you hate a Shrine? Hate war. Even many soldiers were joined army without their intention. They were just following orders from their superiors. So war was a real devil.
America used atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People who are opposing Yasukuni Shrine can oath, “ We will not visit America”.
It was a WAR, which was over 67 years ago. Don’t hate each other; contribute your effort for world peace. Everybody has a bad experience in the world war II.
Please do not do politics on Yasukuni Shrine and do not show your cheapness by highlighting it in media every year.
Posted in: Candidates vary on elections, war shrine
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kaminarikeizai
Conservative marketing style, that’s why Panasonic failed in the market. Why these people hate “National” brand name. I will also miss the old National brand.
Without a proper survey in the market, they are going to remove “National” brand name. Panasonic will again suffer in the Non-Japanese market with its new brand name.
Posted in: Soon-to-be Panasonic scraps National Japan brand
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kaminarikeizai
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. In last 15-20 years banking firms were trying to make big profit, but they failed. There marketing way was totally wrong. First force a customer for housing loan without knowing that his/her jobs may ship to cheap labor countries. Once a person lost his/her job, who will pay back his/her loan.
Blindly investing in real estate. No proper investigation at the time of domestic and overseas deals. Lehman is a very small example.
Posted in: Lehman declares bankruptcy; Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch
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kaminarikeizai
Blame game.
Posted in: Obama, McCain blame economic woes on greed, policy
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kaminarikeizai
UNIQLO failed in U.K. Now it will fail in Russia and India. In these two markets rich people like to buy international brand such as Lee, Levis, Diesel, Wrangler, etc. It’s too bad for India also as Uniqlo creates unnecessary competition in India, where many local manufactures may suffer with this new brand.
Posted in: Fast Retailing to open Uniqlo clothing stores in Russia, India
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kaminarikeizai
OgieDoggie I agree with you. Even many of these IT engineers are not real IT engineers. They are just JLTP 3 or 4 with 6 months Diploma in IT. These people you can find in all major banks in Japan. Many of them are dispatched to Japan without any insurance cover. These people are victim of haken Companies. Funny thing, many of them never paid any TAX to government even they live and work in Japan more than 1 year and Japan is also not taking this problem seriously.
I admire these people and their living style, when they cooked and ate food with their community. These people are saving a lot in Japan even more than a Japanese person. We can learn it from these people. All major IT companies in the world hiring these cheap engineers. God help these people, as these cheap engineers are not getting right salary. No body can help American and Japanese IT engineers until government stop or ban outsourcing. Big MNC thinks only its profit.
Posted in: Japan struggling to fight shortage of skilled engineers
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kaminarikeizai
Many foreign engineers came in the past to fill this shortage. Now many of them are going back to their home countries. Japan has no plan how to create more skilled engineers in its homeland. Some foreign engineers are doing labor work in the Japanese factories even they are skilled engineers. Japanese institutes only teach MS-office or Operating System in many skilled up program. I found a Japanese student spend 200,000 Yen to learn just “Hello World” Program in Java language in Aichi. After this short-term course he can’t be a programmer. There is no guarantee that you will get a job after spending huge money. Due to cost factor Indian or Chinese IT experts get these jobs in Japan. These overseas IT experts spend hardly 50,000 Yen to be a programmer and 500 yen to get all pirated software at their homeland. So they can brush up their skill free of cost. This is a small example. That’s why young Japanese can not be an IT engineer. They drop out of high school each year.
Posted in: Japan struggling to fight shortage of skilled engineers
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kaminarikeizai
I checks at least 5-10 chirashi before going to the market. Wal-Mart is repeating same old mistake. Anyway Wal-Mart has it’s own way of marketing. Chirashi is not bad for the environment as some readers wrote above. It’s saving time and energy of a consumer. I can’t waste petrol and time to check prices in Seiyu, than Apple Land, than Beisia, than Watahan, and so on. I only go to a store, which chirashi is offering a low price.
Posted in: Seiyu cuts flyer distribution to once a week
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kaminarikeizai
We are all facing problems with high raw material costs. Need to increase sales in Indo-Chinese market. No need to invest more money in these two markets but try to double your sales with the current resources.
Posted in: Bridgestone profit down 30% in fiscal 1st half
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kaminarikeizai
Bad idea. It will create some more competition in between convenience stores. This is cost cut era. Tradional business housese don’t need to do different business.
Instead of running a convenience store, Japan Post should open a fast export facility for the small Japanese farmers, it may help to Japanese economy as well as agriculuter of Japan. Many small Japanese farmers don’t know how to export their product (10kg to 200kg).
Posted in: Japan Post opens 1st directly run convenience store
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kaminarikeizai
Anyway Toyota is just an assembler. It’s not a big problem for Toyota to assemble a car in U.S. with the parts from the cheap outsourcing.
Posted in: Toyota to build hybrid Prius in U.S. for 1st time