IT giant wishes to buy a baseball team.
2004.10.19 1:53

Many people might not believe though Japan is still a very ancient regeme society. Both in public and private sectors. Because lots of US investment companies like Colony Capital, Ripplewood have already bought a couple of resorts in this country, and because e.g. GM bought Japan's regional motor company like Mazda, and because French company bought Nissan motor company, already we are get accoustomed to foreign investments here in Japan. A financial situation of Japan's company is vulnerable, fragile, so easily being gotten access to by foreign giants. I think it's NOT BAD.
Japan has been embracing lots of Western standards since around 140 years ago. ( appearing 4 black ships off Japan's coast ) and the end of the WW the second , which occurred 59 years ago. But Japan is unable to get the very lesson US and other Western nations brought about. Being invaded by a couple of foreign investments is a surgical measure, but the very thing for this country to be taken necessarily and inevitably . Welcome foreign investment giants, which will help provide sufficient changes for this country.
Back to the topic above mentioned, Japan's IT giant Softbank expresses their wish to buy a Daiei professional baseball team, one of the most popular teams, based in Fukuoka, Japan. Softbank runs Yahoo Japan. Already two other IT industries have been expressing their wishes to make new professional teams based in Sendai, northeast of Tokyo. I think generation gap between the young and the old has been already enormous. The presidents of these three IT companies are run by 47, 38, 31 year old entrepreners.
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Reminds me...(Score:1)
by n54 (807502) on 2004.10.19 5:23 (#10559062) (http://slashdot.org/~n54/journal Last Journal: 2004.10.16 22:46)
...that I saw an advertisement on BBC World with your prime minister inviting foreign investement in Japan, very cool in my opinion :)I only hope foreign investement does not make japanese companies treat their workers worse as my perception is that most japanese companies treat their workes pretty good. Also I think the japanese notion of company lojalty (and lojalty in general) is valuable and something we can learn from in the rest of the world. Of course this is only my impressions from the outside looking in so it's probably not complete.--this comment is provided "as is" and without any express or implied legibility or congruity [...]
Re:Reminds me...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) on 2004.10.19 13:57 (#10562269) (http://mercedo.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2005.09.24 14:16)
collision of two different cultures makes another new one. japan used to be a semi socialist society. workers once hired by a company soon after graduated from school neither be fired nor quit their job. and between workers whos got a masters degree and bachelors degree doesnt make any differences in their salaries. a kind of notion everybody has got a same standard , avarage , conditions has been regarded virtuous. i think these three or four years, these traditional way of thinking has been drastically changing as western standards have been permeating. those who have got more skill and capacity get more than others whos got less. also companies prefer hiring ones who intend to learn something new and try to change as times go by , and firing who doesnt show any effort in their daily life... we cannot easily judge which society is more preferable. but at least it would be no exaggeration to say that japans society five years ago cannot lasts another five years.