Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: can.politics,can.ai Subject: Re: Star Wars North (really Japanese competition) Message-ID: <1497@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 13:18:26 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1497 Posted: Sun Mar 31 13:18:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 14:45:46 EST References: <890@ubc-vision.CDN> <6@aquila.UUCP> <409@water.UUCP> Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 28 Summary: >Although this doesn't relate directly to star wars, I think the goal of the >Japanese in the fifth generation project is not entirely a "nice" one. >The major goal of Japanese Industry and (by extension and policy) the Japanese >Government for the last 20 years has been commercial domination of free- >market countries. It is clear from their domestic BUY JAPANESE policies that >they are not really interested in fair (foreign) competetion except where they >have no control over it. Read "Kempai-Tai: a history of the Japanese Secret Service" (approximate title, author forgotten) which was on the paperback shelves recently, and still may be. Throughout the history of Japanese interaction with other countries, their focus has been on economic domination, interrupted by a relatively short period in the 1930s-1940s in which they tried the military route. The secret service was always after commercial secrets, with military ones when necessary, rather than the reverse. The quoted opinion from Chris Shaw is entirely consistent with that history. But is it bad? I think that commercial competition of this kind is more likely to bring benefits to all who practice it than is military competition, in which we must participate just to stay alive. [I have deleted can.general and replaced it with can.politics] -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt