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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
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10 May 2004 03:39:30 PM |
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OT: Made in Japan |
Made in Japan
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4933473/
Big multinationals are building billion-dollar factories at home,
inspiring hopes of an industrial renaissance
By Hideko Takayama
Newsweek International
May 17 issue - The story unfolding in Tsuruoka seems to defy an iron
law of the postindustrial age: that factories and jobs will flow from
rich nations to poorer ones. In 2002 Kenwood built a portable
mini-disc (MD) production line in Malaysia to take advantage of low
wages, but last year moved production back to this small city 460
kilometers north of Tokyo. Kenwood realized that it could run the line
with four workers in Tsuruoka, versus 22 in Malaysia. It could deliver
orders to stores in two days, rather than five weeks, and lower the
average time materials spent in factory stockrooms from 18 days to
three. In all, it's 10 percent cheaper to make mini-discs in Japan.
"The consumers seem to be happy that we are back," says Kazuhiro Sato,
managing director of the Kenwood subsidiary that makes MDs. "Just like
many other people in Asia, the Japanese like to see the words MADE IN
JAPAN."
Japan Japanese Nippon
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