SamuraiBlue
Captain
Nope they were forced out of business due to competition in the 80's.
They are reviving the industry after 20 years due to better market condition.
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Nope they were forced out of business due to competition in the 80's.
They are reviving the industry after 20 years due to better market condition.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
I wouldn't worry about that if I were Japanese. According to you, the weeds in Fukushima are tougher than modern skyscrapers. For Japanese to talk to China about pollution, I can only assume is the grand champion trying to teach others to get up to his level LOL
(search for Biwa in text)
I've been reading your link via translation, first, Sankei is relatively ultra-right, and would aim to neglect mention of lake pollution, blaming the issue instead on the Chinese. But if you follow the Chinese pearl industry, Chinese pearl quality was terrible in the 1970s and 1980s, often being described as "rice krispies" due to their baroque appearance and small size, and could not possibly compete with Biwa. All other sources cite either pollution or increasing environmental regulations as having killed the Lake Biwa industry.
At this point, others mocked your claims of being a critical thinker, and I am now, disappointingly, beginning to suspect bigotry on your part myself. I'm not here to join the lynch mob, so I'll let the others handle this.
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The government doesn't need to intervene. It appointed Kuroda as head of the central bank and he is creating yens out of thin air as if there is no tomorrow.
One other point; check out Dogs and Demons:
This is pretty much a reasonable account of what went wrong in Japan in the 70s an 80s, and was not corrected in the 90s. The author is now more optimistic about Japan.
One thing to note, however, is that it's cited that Japan pours more concrete than the United States a year in a territory about 1/30th the size, and as Kerr describes, the Japanese construction industry spent a lot of time on make-work projects in the Japanese countryside, uglifying, or so Kerr claims, its natural beauty. This is a rough analogue to your accusation of Chinese ghost-city corruption.
This is pretty much a reasonable account of what went wrong in Japan in the 70s an 80s, and was not corrected in the 90s. The author is now more optimistic about Japan.
One thing to note, however, is that it's cited that Japan pours more concrete than the United States a year in a territory about 1/30th the size, and as Kerr describes, the Japanese construction industry spent a lot of time on make-work projects in the Japanese countryside, uglifying, or so Kerr claims, its natural beauty. This is a rough analogue to your accusation of Chinese ghost-city corruption.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
So if you can't argue with the story then attack the publisher, typical.
Japan placed strict antipollution laws in the early 70's including farming.
The region of Lake Biwa in basically in the backwaters mostly for farming. It is also the fresh water supply for Kyoto and Osaka.
Try again.
broadsword
Brigadier
By that logic one should take things like the Mirror or Fox News at face value then if reporting alone was so sacrosanct. Sources and ideological biases play a massive part in terms of reliability of information, supply side economic statistical presentation being a big case in point.