Last June, Akio Toyoda, president of Japan’s Toyota Motor, delivered a blunt appraisal of his country’s most cherished economic asset: its competitiveness as a manufacturing power. “If you look at it logically,” he said as he announced a reorganisation of the carmaker’s domestic operations, which were haemorrhaging money as a result of a soaring yen, “it doesn’t make sense to manufacture in Japan.”
去年6月,日本豐田汽車(Toyota Motor)總裁豐田章男(Akio Toyoda)對(duì)日本最看重的經(jīng)濟(jì)資產(chǎn)——競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力和制造能力——發(fā)表了直言不諱的評(píng)價(jià)。“從邏輯的角度來(lái)看,”他在宣布對(duì)豐田國(guó)內(nèi)業(yè)務(wù)進(jìn)行重組時(shí)說(shuō):“在日本制造是不合理的。”日元的大幅升值,導(dǎo)致豐田重組在資金方面消耗巨大。