Locals in Osaka, the regional hub, have long lamented the "double hollowing out" that sent factory jobs to other Asian countries and office jobs to Tokyo.One of the most heartening recent trends, therefore, has been a much brighter outlook for employment.
Christian Salvesen, based in Leith, adopted Norwegian practices of sending huge factory ships to the Antarctic, where they processed whales caught by a fleet of catcher vessels.
A RARELY mentioned irony of globalisation is that, whereas developed countries are sending more factories and call-centres East, Asia long ago outsourced its capital markets to the West.
In many cases our own so-called "American" corporations are voluntarily "deindustrializing" and sending the factories and equipment to "trading partners" elsewhere.
Just look at how NAFTA, China's entry into the WTO and other agreements are causing huge trade deficits and sending jobs, factories and industries out of the country while dramatically increasing income and wealth inequality.
Buyers send the factory fuel tank and rear-wheel hub to Ryca, where the tank is reshaped, reducing its capacity to about 2.2 gallons from the original 2.8, and the wheel is relaced to fit an 18-inch rim.
The cutback in temporary workers has occurred mostly among those sent to factory jobs, said Jeffrey Joerres, chief executive of Manpower Inc., "but the proportion losing jobs in call centers, banks and brokerage firms is rising".
"You can buy a person's labor," he says, "or if you don't want to hire a Mexican in California, then you can send your factory to Mexico and hire your Mexicans there, and this is even better because then you can keep your clean air in California and send your dirty air to Mexico.
"Does Easton know that?" Clever of young Easton, sending the old factory rep into the kill zone.
"Afghanistan is no longer a terrorist factory sending thousands of killers into the world," President Bush announced on Tuesday, as he stood in the White House Rose Garden next to his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai.
