Japan is no longer an industrial power?
Chișinău / Moldova.ORG/ -- Until last week, Japan, a member of The Group of 8 (G8) most developed countries of the world, was a prosperous and developing country - the most powerful Asian state.
Since the late nineteenth century, during the Meiji era - when Japan grew upward, and so far, neither the Second World War, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or other earthquakes the country had to face, have failed to destroy Japan.
Throughout its history, Japan has continued to evolve and no disasters stopped her to reach the top of most advanced countries.
It seems that the tragedies that have occurred in the Land of Rising Sun last week, causing enormous economic and human losses, showed Japan’s real weakness - untoward physical and geographical position and the inability to fight the forces of nature.
Japan is the third most powerful economy and industrial-economy in the world. Its real problem is its almost absolute poverty in mineral resources - almost all the energy, metals and other raw materials are imported from other countries. The situation in which foreign companies evacuated workers from Japan due to the instability at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the fact that the Persian Gulf disrupted the oil supply can bring Japan to a real deadlock - it could eventually cease to be one of the most powerful countries of the world.
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