'the greatest private equity bonanza of all time'

[Taro Toporific]

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...within the next 18 months, the generation that built Japanese industry from the ashes of the Second World War will be hitting that magical age of 79.1. Given what is out there in terms of value and industrial strength, it is a fairly short wait for what could be the greatest private equity bonanza of all time.
[color="White"]--------[/color]---Age cannot wither them: Leo Lewis on Asia - TIMES Online - September 5, 2008

[pheyton]

Wow, that was perhaps one of the worst fuckin articles I have read as of late. Japanese companies need foreign capital to be global? Yet, he contradicts himself by saying something like dozens of Japanese companies are dominant in their markets throughout the world.

This is more of the sickening Freemarketeer bullshit. What has made Japanese companies great has been their ability to keep the Corporate Raiders out and think beyond the next quarter's numbers. If they allow the barbarians in they will destroy Japanese companies and it will produce ripple effects throughout society. Japanese companies may need to adapt and make some changes, but keep the sovereign wealth funds and the private equity funds in their own fucked up countries.

I hope that Japanese Shacho's have instilled their values into the people who will take over the company when they pass on. They built these companies from scratch to become dominate players in the world. They don't need any assholes coming in for short term profits, eviscerating the companies they worked so hard to build and exporting the profits.