e Japanese started producing goods, small stuff at first, like junky toys in the earlier years - but then came better items, much better items. Now it is the Americansthat suffer from the inferiority complex, not familiar with beingeconomically vulnerable and not entirely in control of their destinies. Whoto blame - the Japanese of course. If Americans can not learn to competewith the Japanese, then there is going to be some serious trouble becausethe economic problem will not just "go" away.When Japan lost World War II, six million Japanese had to return homefrom the colonies Japan lost. These people had to be fed, clothed andhoused. The outlook for Japan's recovery did not look very hopeful. TheAmericans had no intention of helping the Japanese, but the communistvictory in China changed this, because the Americans wanted to stop thefurther advance of communism. Americans started to help Japan out by notmaking them pay reparations for war damages and opened Japanese trade toother countries. The Americans dissolved the powerful family businesseswhich opened business to more competition and in the countryside, they tookland from the landlords and gave it to the tenant farmers. By the timeAmerican occupation ended in 1952, Japan had returned to prewar levels ofproduction. With their recovery now ensured, Japan embarked on a period ofgreat economic growth which is growing at a faster rate every day.Yoshio Sakurachi, the speaker for the Lower House of the Diet (theJapanese Parliament), called American workers lazy and illiterate. Theseremarks came just after George Bush and the leaders of American AutoCorporations had visited Japan, a trip that left everyone with animpression of American weakness and whining.Americans are now trying to figure out ways to get the economy back onLine. Dr. William Lippy, for example, offered the 75 employees of his clinic $400cash if they bought a new American car. He started inviting all othercompanies to joi...
