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lechiffre10 · 2018-07-31 21:42:29+00:00

Again, there is a ZERO chance a Japanese company would allow an American company to take it over for cultural reasons. That won't happen.

stainablesteel | karma 562 | avg karma 1.02 · | 2023-11-17 18:28:16

companies will just go to japan where its legal

tpmx | karma 10347 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2023-09-19 15:52:45

Yeah, Japan is different than the currently relatively meak US. Fiercely nationalistic. There is no way this would be allowed to happen.

xwdv | karma 1003 | avg karma 0.21 · | 2023-01-03 23:38:44

In Japan, forget about it. The business will sooner shut down than be given away to some filthy gaijin.

layer8 | karma 23301 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2022-09-21 13:32:59

Japan wouldn’t.

Danieru | karma 6179 | avg karma 5.84 · | 2017-04-11 08:33:27

The Japanese government is not about to let a major company like Toshiba stop operating. Not over an issue driven by a foreign company.

The plan I heard was for the semiconductor side to be sold. That might be something you care about.

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laputan_machine | karma 1448 | avg karma 4.26 · | 2019-10-09 07:37:40+00:00

Japan wasn't run by a dictator, didn't have tens of thousands of people from a particular religious group placed into concentration camps, or owned so much stock in particular US companies that they can get those very same US companies to bend over to their demands.

It's not the same, and you know that.

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matheusmoreira | karma 22085 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2023-09-18 09:18:14

Good point. Is Tokyo not participating in the bidding war for people's good will? Perhaps it's not allowed to?

rowls66 | karma 262 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2022-08-08 12:08:21

I doubt that Japan would like to have them.

thereare5lights | karma 3964 | avg karma 5.05 · | 2021-04-08 22:44:43+00:00

Japan doesn't have over 4x the population of US and a comparable amount of land.

China has many advantages that Japan doesn't have. It's not a given that the same thing will happen.

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godelski | karma 19371 | avg karma 2.68 · | 2022-12-18 20:27:24

We're talking about Japan. Not everything has to be about America.

fyzix | karma 281 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2023-06-13 13:21:16

Why would the US jeopardize one of it's giants to appease a Japanese giant?

rossdavidh | karma 19091 | avg karma 4.77 · | 2020-06-21 03:14:24+00:00

In Japan's case, definitely not true.

o0-0o | karma 1967 | avg karma 3.87 · | 2024-01-07 22:18:34

That's just incorrect information. There is a bid, which needs to go through a variety of functions to succeed. Also, it's not a bid by Japan. It's a bid by Nippon Steel. Just clearing up the hogwash here.

redis_mlc | karma 1807 | avg karma 0.46 · | 2021-07-26 14:59:46

1) Japan doesn't want foreigners.

2) Their central bank owns everything, hence their stock market is frozen.

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ekianjo | karma 34827 | avg karma 2.44 · | 2017-05-24 22:57:04

Yup, but Japan does not have the military might of the US to ensure they remain a dominant country.

kevin_thibedeau | karma 19088 | avg karma 2.16 · | 2014-12-04 20:49:33+00:00

What's more surprising is that no execs from Japan have crossed over to SPE.

niconii | karma 250 | avg karma 6.94 · | 2022-03-14 21:26:30

I'm pretty sure they're talking about Japan, not the US.

ekianjo | karma 34827 | avg karma 2.44 · | 2015-03-16 08:21:43+00:00

Yeah, totally agree. This is so ridiculous. Japan is one of the only developed countries where owners have about everything to their advantage.

hugh | karma 3185 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2008-02-16 03:04:10+00:00

Growing up in the eighties, I distinctly remember Mad Magazine assuring me that soon the Japanese would own everything in America. Is this just the same thing again?