The advice to widen the Japanese corporate base to India, Brazil and other East European countries is a great one to achieve a balanced approach. But the question is, is the timing now or the future?
With the gloomy global economy and uncertainties of the financial health of many European countries which also affects the aforementioned rising econmoies too, expansion now may be a bad idea.
Perhaps, Japan should widen their base. They should include India, Brazil and other east european countries for their need. This may provide them with more balanced approach. Japanese car manufacturer have adopted this route.
“Japanese OEMs that shifted their sourcing to Europe have looked prescient, with the yen climbing against the euro for the rest of the year”
Kim, How long is a big question. Economic crisis are very natural and we had seen this from early 90’s. Japan is one of the countries, who had experienced the economic crisis in a big way.
the rise of yen against the usd and euro is a very big challenge for the japanese oems to sell their products. Particularly because of the strong yen the cost of the lcd displays from japanese companies is costing much much higher when compared to taiwan or korean lcd mfrs. I'm still thinkin how japanese oems will overcome this in the recent future.
"it was "fighting a profit-sapping surge in the yen," and begging for Tokyo to adopt measures to weaken the currency"
@Marc, why Japan authorities are so reluctant to intervene and weaken the Yen ? Yen has dropped from 90+ levels to 76 within a year, which will definitely hurt the economy. We have seen how China has manipulated its currency successfully over years, why Japan is hesitant to intervene?
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