If we are directly told to do so, we would withdraw from the United States. We won’t be able to make really good products at costs beneficial for customers. It would become meaningless to do business

It's not only going to be Uniqlo that takes this attitude. So many businesses operate on the model of out sourcing labour these days. Trump has to learn that force doesn't work.

Son-san's words articulate a different kind of bottom line: that of business common sense not just the simple profit-based one.

After that the politics of it all can be drawn in.

They coult try putting th eprices up to reflect the fact that there products are not being made in "low cost" countries.

Says the guy who sent his family to live in the US following the 3/11 earthquake and meltdown...

Uniqlo is willing to pay American workers to make clothes that they can wear? Why not?

Wakarimasen,

They coult try putting th eprices up to reflect the fact that there products are not being made in "low cost" countries.

They could. And they would lose customers because people can buy similar quality at Shimomura and other places. Then they wouldn't be able to pay rent on their shops or salaries to their workers.

I used to buy Levis jeans that were made in the USA a couple of decades ago. They lasted a lot longer and were of higher quality than today's Uniglo jeans made in Bangladesh. I have a pair of Edwin jeans made in Japan, purchased 10 years ago, well worn and still not a stitch out of place.

In terms of value to consumers, there isn't much difference between trousers made in the 1st world or 3rd world. The difference is with corporate profits. Way, way higher when made in Bangladesh. Yanai-san and his executives want to line their pockets with as much as cash as possible.

Sacom (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) is a non profit organization based in Honk Kong. Sacom teamed up with NGO War On Want in 2015 to monitor and compare factories across South China labour practices across UNIQLO's/Fast Retail supply chain, against UNIQLO's claimed Code of Conduct and present a report. There is little or no evidence that conditions have changed.

War on want is current lobbying EU parliament MEP to challenge Fast Retails code of conduct.

Tadashi Yanai, chief of Fast Retailing Co, the operator of the Uniqlo, is the very definition of corporate greed and an unacceptable face of globalisation. Tadashi Yanai will not move any of his factories or plants to the United States and it has little or nothing to do with quote

We won’t be able to make really good products at costs beneficial for customers

The reason lies behind a business/production model that is dependent on save labour and inhuman working conditions bottom line.

The reality behind UNIQLO's corporate social responsibility promises

http://www.waronwant.org/media/reality-behind-uniqlos-corporate-social-responsibility-promises