Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo, downplaying the potential for diplomatic friction between the U.S. and Japan over Toyota's problems. (Christian Science Monitor)
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I am not denying that there is a degree of schadenfreude among some people in the US, but this is not about Japan-bashing. This is about Toyota not living up to its own standards and selling defective
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dammit
Hehehe, my Japanese hubby was moaning at me just yesterday that the Americans are making way too much of the Toyota recall. He seems to believe they're being racist. I pointed out the gyoza scandal and how it was all over the news here, but he still thinks they're going OTT in America. I also pointed out that Toyota wouldn't have such bad press if they'd got their fingers out and done something when there had only been one or even two incidents, and it's mostly that arrogant inaction that's causing the resentment. Kinda like the Chinese refusal to accept that the gyoza contamination might have happened there. Still he feels aggrieved. I think he's been reading too many internet articles, you know how biased they can be.
It's certainly true though that Toyota has given itself a bad name, but making Japanese people feel resentful over it isn't going to help anyone, not Toyota, not the Japanese people, nor anyone else.
kyoken
Both comments are spot on. The problem proves, that people, nations or cooperations lack the most, what they praise themselves the most.