Just when the Shankou Group was in big trouble, the Japanese government was also in big trouble.
On June 8, Japan’s main technology giants, including Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, Japan Electric, Honda, Toyota and more than a dozen Japanese technology giants, jointly submitted a co-signature letter to the Prime Minister of Japan, requesting Japan to resume international operations as soon as possible. image.
During this period, as Japan’s image plummeted internationally, it gradually began to affect these technology giants.
Japan’s economic development has been very rapid in the past ten years, with exports accounting for the majority.
In recent years, Japanese business giants such as Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, Japan Electric, Honda, and Toyota have quickly become world-class business giants by selling their products all over the world.
Regions such as Western Europe and North America are the main markets for these companies.
But in recent times, as Japan's international image has continued to deteriorate due to the Su Group incident, these companies were surprised to find that they were also implicated.
Just after the market opened, these companies thought that this incident would only affect the Japanese tourism industry and had nothing to do with them.
The most that they can do is that they cannot cooperate with Su Group and Hutchison Whampoa Group for the time being. If they don't cooperate, they will not suffer much loss for the time being.
However, gradually they discovered that this matter was not only related to them, but also had a bigger relationship.
Since last week, foreign dealers or branches have been reporting to them that for some reason, their product sales have suddenly begun to decrease.
Subsequently, basically every day, these companies will receive similar responses.
At first, they did not connect this incident with the Su Group incident.
However, as more and more dealers reported, they gradually discovered that dealers were ordering less and less, and then they asked those dealers to investigate and interview those original intended customers. Why did they not receive the orders in the end? Buy their products.
As a result, these original intended customers basically felt that in a country like Japan where domestic security could not be guaranteed, the quality of the products would definitely be unreliable. After all, products of this era could rarely achieve anything. Three guarantees of quality.
Moreover, the products of companies such as Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, Japan Electric, Honda, Toyota, etc. are actually very competitive internationally. Their products only outsell similar products in Europe and the United States because of their price advantage.
Europe and the United States themselves are important markets for Japan’s major technology giants, and users in these markets feel that instead of buying cheap but quality-unguaranteed Japanese products, it is better to buy big brands from Europe and the United States. Although the price is a bit more expensive, at least the quality is guaranteed.
In addition, due to the deterioration of Japan's image, many people's favorability towards Japanese products has continued to decline. This is also the reason why they suddenly do not want to buy Japanese products.
These Japanese technology giants have just begun to pay attention to this matter.
Although these companies can survive very well relying on the Japanese market, they will never become world-class companies.
Once overseas markets are hit, they will surely suffer heavy losses.
It is obvious now that the factory's orders are declining, and the workers have changed from two shifts a day to only eight hours a day.
Not only did the company's orders drop, employees also began to complain.
These ordinary assembly line workers account for the vast majority of employees in these technology companies.
Their salaries are not very high. If they want to get a higher salary, they can only work more hours.
But now I don't have to work overtime, so I can only get a pitifully low basic salary. In this way, many people naturally no longer want to work. They still have to support their families. Relying on this basic salary, it is difficult to live in big cities with high consumption levels.
So, in less than two weeks, people began to resign in the manufacturing plants owned by these companies.
This is a chain reaction.
The initial incident obviously had nothing to do with them. It was just the extortion by the Shankou Group and the government's inaction on the matter. However, they had done nothing. Many companies were even affiliated with the Su Group or in cooperation with them. Remember the partners of Sioux City companies such as Huangpu Group or Tianqiong Semiconductor Company.
However, because of this incident, not only did they temporarily lose these partners, but their own company was also implicated for no reason.
It was just one thing, but it caused so many changes in a series of related things. No one expected it, not even the Japanese government, nor did these technology giants.
So, the senior executives of these companies began to panic.
But Japan’s international image cannot be restored by companies like them. This matter must be restored by the government.
In the final analysis, it was still because of the inaction of the government at the time. Everyone knew that the village governor and others had committed very bad behaviors such as extortion and intentional injury to the Japanese branch of the Su Group. As a country governed by the rule of law, the Japanese government Relevant departments should step in and take care of this matter.
But what did the government do?
Not only did they not interfere at all, they also acted like they couldn't see it. The police station didn't care, and even the Japanese Investment Promotion Department didn't care!
Is this kind of behavior still a country ruled by law? Is it still the style of an economically powerful country? Is it still a civilized country?
These are all questions asked by the media.
At this moment, the bosses of these technology companies also strongly agree with these news statements.
If the police department had been serious and responsible and the investment department had done something, there would not have been a situation like this today, Japan's international image would not have been smeared, and they would not have suffered heavy losses in the international market!
Whether it is Toshiba, Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Sony, Panasonic and other companies, they all feel that they are very wronged. It is obviously the government's inaction, but they are required to pay for this inaction.
In the short term, the losses are so great. If it continues, what’s the point?
So, as a last resort, these companies can only secretly unite and start to put pressure on the government.
If this situation does not change in time, there will be no market that they have finally conquered internationally.
The market is not easy to conquer, and it took them more than ten or twenty years to finally conquer it.
As the saying goes, it is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it.
They finally conquered such a huge market, but now they are facing such a huge market that is about to be destroyed by their own government.
Everyone will feel wronged.
Because of this, they immediately started signing a co-signature letter after joining forces.
These enterprises have a huge impact on the Japanese economy, and they will affect the development of the Japanese economy at any time.
So, after receiving the joint signature, the Japanese government finally began to take it seriously. (End of this chapter)