Word: shibaura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entrenched to be changed without tremendous dislocations in Japanese society. Big corporations have avoided the issue so far by choosing an alternative answer: to cut the number of new workers hired while keeping productivity per worker high with more automation in factories. This year, for example, the giant Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. will take on only 700 new workers to replace the 3,000 who are reaching retirement...
...obvious reason: since they pay the world's highest wages, they have the nost to save by manufacturing offshore. They began by subcontracting work to locally owned firms in Japan and Western Europe, and are still expanding that practice. Ford Motor, for example, has signed up Tokyo Shibaura Electric to make most of the generators that will go into its 1971 models, and is dickering to have another Japanese firm, Dieel Kiki, supply many of the compressors needed in auto air-conditioning systems. Lately a growing number of American firms have gone further to set up their own component...