Helping Japan..... Pros and Cons

[Times Roman]

I thought you'd have a rebuttal. I know your interest in this, so I'll leave it alone.

I will say that my exposure to the Japanese, and the asians, is more than brief and more than casual.

I will admit, on a social level, the Japanese can be very charming and pleasant.

Regarding the Chip, Terraj. You may be right. But it wasn't there a few years ago. It grew only after having been involved heavily with the Japanese over several years, and with many personal experiences with not only myself, by my western associates as well. I lived in Korea and worked with the Koreans, and came away with a different perspective.

Although I will say the Koreans were involved in technology and intellectual property theft also. Same as the Chinese. Chinese maybe even more so, I'm not sure.

[terraj]

I thought you'd have a rebuttal. I know your interest in this, so I'll leave it alone.

I will say that my exposure to the Japanese, and the asians, is more than brief and more than casual.

I will admit, on a social level, the Japanese can be very charming and pleasant.

Regarding the Chip, Terraj. You may be right. But it wasn't there a few years ago. It grew only after having been involved heavily with the Japanese over several years, and with many personal experiences with not only myself, by my western associates as well. I lived in Korea and worked with the Koreans, and came away with a different perspective.

Although I will say the Koreans were involved in technology and intellectual property theft also. Same as the Chinese. Chinese maybe even more so, I'm not sure.

It's hard to rebut personal experinces man, sorry you had such a hard time with their culture, it can be brutal and I know it is so different from our respective cultures. I would never work for a Japanese company, however everybody who works for me in Japan is Japanese and I have made many great relationships from doing business here, but I have also been fvcked over big time on parternships with Japanese...such is life.