Japan is the odd one out in the G7, a clear-cut Asian
race masquerading as White. They were accepted into the G7 then, as
Japan had the No. 2 GDP in world ranking. Now at No. 4 but still
sliding, overtaken by Germany. But now it is a battle of the sliders,
fighting over who is going down faster.
Brazil, Indonesia and
Mexico are rising stars that have the potential to be bigger than some
of the pretenders in the G7. India is another with potential if given
the right Government in place.
Japan is the pariah among Asians.
It is a country that always tried to snuggle itself into the White's
embrace. There was a time when the Japanese even demanded that they be
treated as Whites in Africa or South America. Nowadays, most Asians care
the fxxk about the Japs. Japan is the outcast among Asian countries.
Most having good vibes with the Japanese today are just for economic
reasons.
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Asians never have any good impressions of Japanese after WW2. Those that are friendly towards them today are mostly on the grounds of economic reasons.
Japanese investments in the early days in Singapore were all about taking advantage of cheap wages and tax breaks. After the ten-year tax break ended, most Japanese factories just close shop. I worked in a Japanese toy factory in 1973 in Toa Payoh. Factory workers assembling toys then were paid S$2.50 a day. Two factory foremen, touted to be sent to and trained in Japan, were paid about S$230 per month. That factory closed down after I left after a couple of months. One thing I still remember well was how patriotic those Japs were, even flying in ordinary stationary from Japan by air when they were available locally. That was an example of Japanese 'Keiretsu' system then existing in Japan, with Japanese companies doing business under interlocking relationships that was to lead to Japan's economic crisis in the 1990s.
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