(Source:
“Ajia-kyoenken-no-jidai-goodbye America”, Eikan Kyu & Shoichi Watanabe, PHP Institute, p.86)
In old days Soichiro Honda came to my house and joined in a meal.
I remember, when I asked him “How many factories do you have in the foreign countries?”, he answered “35”.
And I asked, “where is the best factory in them that you get along well?” He answered “It’s Taiwan”. And he said,
“When I go to Taiwan, they all say to me, ‘We can work thanks to Mr. Honda’.
They treat me extremely politely.”
I think that these words of Mr. Honda symbolize relations of Japan and Taiwan.
I asked Honda “By the way, where is the worst place?” He said “It’s Korea”.
I asked “Why?” He began to explain. “I went to Korea and taught them how to make a motorcycle.
So they learned to make it, and they said to us, ‘We buy all the stocks, so you go home’.
My subordinate asked me ‘What shall we do?’ and I said, ‘We don’t have to work where they say such a thing.’ and I had them return money.”
Though both of Taiwan and Korea were the former Japanese colonies, there seem to be the place for Japanese to get along well with and the place not to.
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