Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Slapped around

Yet another data point that Japan is getting slapped around by the U.S. — both politically and economically. This could be very interesting over the next decade – U.S. manufacturing and low-skill jobs are being outsourced overseas while at the same time American companies are essentially hiring foreign workers through corporate buyouts. More and more of an American company’s assets will be global, or at least have high dependence on international factors potentially out of their control unless they also build an employee base atune to cultural tolerance….