tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post4334457991666057966..comments2024-03-14T07:32:30.141+09:00Comments on Marketing Japan: mike in tokyo rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-22923791322605084562011-04-17T21:30:34.502+09:002011-04-17T21:30:34.502+09:00I don't always agree with Gavan McCormack, but...I don't always agree with Gavan McCormack, but I have read his book _Client State_ and really found it helpful.<br /><br />I think the article you link to is extremely good, but I think this one is even better:<br />http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gavan-McCormack/2602<br /><br />Here's a quote:<br />"Despite the early 21st century Japanese government’s mantra of privatization and deregulation, huge sums were poured into nuclear projects which would never have started, much less been sustained, by market forces. While public and political attention focused in 2005 on the privatization of the Post Office, bureaucrats far removed from public scrutiny, accounting or debate were taking decisions of enormous import for Japan’s future, cosseting the nuclear industry and giving it trillions.<br />Japan’s renewable energy sector (solar, wind, wave, biomass, and geothermal, excluding large-scale hydropower), constitutes a miserable 0.3 per cent of its energy generation, planned to rise over the next ten years to 1.35 but then to decline slightly by 2030. By contrast, even China plans to double its natural energy output to 10 per cent by 2010 and the EU has a target of 20 per cent by 2020.[23] In short, Japan stands out as a country following a course radically at odds with the international community, driven by bureaucratic direction rather than market forces, much less democratic consensus.<br /><br />Rokkasho does not strike me as a good idea.Matt D.http://www.anarchyjapan.comnoreply@blogger.com