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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

GII > Government Intelligence Index

The GDP of a nation and its growth not simply depends upon the economic activity of the country, but largely on the Intelligence levels of its Ministers and Bureaucrats .

The competence of the politicians reflects the development of the state. The collective intelligence then reflects the probability of growth and development.

As I wrote in my last article on Democracy, the irony of democracy is that it returns politicians with mediocre competence . This is the major flaw of current form of democracy.

The net result is that Overall Government Intelligence Index is much below the global average and the nation suffers and falls behind in the quality of life index.

Unfortunately, UNO, who should have laid the standards for global development and bench marked good governance and defined politicians worth for taking the responsibility of the state . But UNO is a failed organization.

It is about time the Economist start capturing the GII number for each country and alarm the global communities that the risk of investing in that particular country is that the lawmakers intelligence levels itself will not allow the people to develop.

Further, the global communities have to keep reminding the nations that GII is the major indicator, which can bring change to the nation.

Automatically, people of that nation would be sensitive to the GII of their county and would return More Calibred people to the parliament.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Digital Democracy ; The New World

It is about time for Digitial Democracy. If largely the job of governments was signing and stamping papers , the most of this has to be now done digitally. The time of Millions of Beurocrats and Miles of Red Tapism is over. Governments will have to offer all their services online and deliver it online.

On the other functions of policies and law making, the larger population has to be roped in. The older model of one person one vote and then choosing a leader etc was ok, when there were no other better methods of putting the choice of people into law and practises. However, with the advent of Online Submissions, each person now has his vote ready for any instant voting. Hence domocracy has to be revisited.

Democracy as a concept perhaps dates back to time immemorial. The voice of every person was factored in local decision and law making. The person was then the part of the community and the community would choose its head , office bearers etc. The rule of people via their votes was then the way of governance. Today, we further it blindly and fight for our rights , which otherwise should have been a natural give away by the formulated system.

However, as mankind evolved and a functional legal democracy got first established in US sometimes in the 17th century.

The system incorporated the principle of One Man , One Vote . So, the opinion of the person was cast via his vote.
Democracy was the Disproproportionate Distribution of wealth aligned to the power, intelligence , wealth, caste, race, colour and control.

The system has finally proven relatively better then any other known system of governance like communism or socialism etc.

But, the 21st century is the century of awakeneing. Democracy has to be redefined. The idea of one person one vote has to foregone forever.

No more is acceptable that a " Criminal " has one vote same as " Law abiding citizen " . The " Scientiest " with full life education and committment to serve the global community has One vote same as " Laborer " . An illiterate has the same vote as a Ph.D. A taxi driver has the same vote as the Manager of a company. Analogy can go on and on.

The system of one person one vote was ok , when knowledge and skill did not really matter. The fairness was about giving voice to everyone. But when a very large population of people are unfair to their ownself by not properly investing into their education and skill, the larger welfare of the society cannot be left to the votes accumalted out of illiterates or poorly educated to then make choices, which then ruin the whole country.

Politicians have well understood this phenomenon and more so in the Third World, that by only tapping on the large uneducated or poorly educated part of the society, they can still come to the power and use the power to suck the nation ,sometimes deliberately and sometimes indeliberately on account of poor competance.

Unless one man , one vote system is challanged and votes are given relative to the persons qualification, skill, knowledge and contribution to the society. The current system will only lead to weak and exploited states. There are many models which can be designed.

However, it is about time, when Democracy is revisited and Knowledge Based Democracy is delivered to the people. Democracy, wherin the government clearly

Defines the Deliverables to its people .
Delivers the Basic and Advanced requirments without any hassles.
Offers every service online and delivers semalessly.
Reports Transparently the progress each quarter and if after one year, the progress is non satisafactory, then the head of the state is automatically changed.

List can go on and on. But I am quite serious about starting a Debate on > No One Vote, One Person " Votes as per competency of the person.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Wikileaks

Why are so many people crying ' Foul ' against ' Assange' for leaking out the classified cables of US Diplomacy. And interestingly I find so many hotly debating that he has put the life`s of so many people in danger.

Whatever leaks I have read , I dont really find anything which was not already known to everyone. Other then now it is the most original form, reproduced word to word. May be Wikileaks has bought the Arab World views on Iran more on the front, but that is already making things so much easier and nicer for US. The Yemeni covering up the attack by US Army was also very well known to the whole world.

Yes, there will be a credibality loss for the US army, because whenever its missbombing is reported and then explained by the US Generals, no one would ever accept. However, this gives a chance to US Generals to not cover up any missbombing and at the first place , not try any such stunt.

Sweden, a country which stands for " Human Rights Values " has asked for the extradition. I use to think Sweden was perhaps the Best Country in the world for Human Rights, but now I would equate it to ...................?

Australian Foreign Minister was the only one who had the guts to stand up and say, it is not Assange, but the US Diplomacy, which needs to be blamed. US should know, how to keep its secure data. If wikileaks can look into US records, then any terrorist organization or for that matter any rouge country can break into Pentagon and break the whole system .

In an open world, there is no need for Hypocrisy. The talk and walk should be the same. One cannot say something to the public and hide the facts for keeping himself in power and position.

Arrest of One Assange will no way stop wikileaks to publish more and more classifed information.

Manila

Last week, I was in Manila after 5 years. Not much really changed , other then the Green Belt shopping area.

Interestingly, why should shopping areas be called " Green Belt" ? But I see a a subtle change in retailing. The shops are being designed for visual attraction, but when it comes to the " Brands ", somehow the luxury is missing.

Any market in the world is largely Clothing based and most clothing brands have kind of lost clue on
Colours
Shapes
Sizes
Designs.

Over and over again, it is the same colors, same kind of designs and same presentation. There is a clear lack of Innovation. Though on the prices, everyone is trying to use rockets to place the prices on the moon.

Any garment you buy and after the first wash, the original crease is lost forever, the handle is no more the same, the appeal is faded . Simple, because the Finishing technology is so poor. Most of these brands try to source their fabrics from all kind of cheap producers , who do not have the required machines to get a lasting effect, nor the brands pay prices, where in the maker can use Top Quality finishes.

The biggest catastrophe is keeping uniformity of sizes . I bought two " Shorts " in the green belt in manila and both of the same size. One fits me fine and the other is way big. This is quality control.

I saw a pair of socks, wherein the design was embedded on the sole of the sox and the side which climbs the legs had no design. This is the mind of a designer.

Another jean of a top brand, the metal zipper did not work.

Being a Textile Technologist myself, these things dont digest easily. But the garmenting business runs practically with Merchandizers and Brand Managers, who have absolutely no clue of Textile Manufacturing.

Nevertheless, what I liked most about Manila was the Traffic. Perhaps one Capital City, where the traffic is not really bad. From one end to the other end of the city should not normally take more then 30 to 45 minutes.

As a whole, I liked Manila.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Fatloss.

Being a vegetarian, my mother believed her son was deprived of the key proteins and fed me with copious amount of ghee in all her preparations. The net result was that even before I was 5, I was already over weight.

Well, " goolu, moolu" kids always look nicer and so I was still the pride of my mother. However, as I grew up the fat stuck firm with me and the ponch refused to go. As I grew older, the ponch would still remind me of the extra ordinary love of my mother and her wonderful dishes. But the ponch also grew in size and shape.

Not that I was much overweight, but the tummy had taken permanently a shape that it would pop out shamelessly. Having tried fitness, starvation and all the other fancies, but the tummy refused to sink.

Having explored the whole net and million sites on weight loss, I gave up and started my own experimentation. The result was that within one month I lost 5kgs and another one month, another 2 kgs.

The experiment was very simple, I bought a weighing machine and every morning and evening started recording my weight. The difference between the morning and evening weight was the net gain in weight in one single day.

This also described, that weight was a function of metabolism and consistently the body only processes a certain weight and anything more then that goes and adds upto the body weight.

It was easy to see that my body would only process 1.2kgs of weight each day and if I had taken more then 1.2 kgs of food and drinks, then that would go and add up to my weight. And if less then 1.2 kgs, it would come down.

It did not matter, whether the intake was proteins , carbs, fat or whatsoever. But at the end of the day, the actual gain in body should not have been more then 1.2 kgs.

There are others, who have their metabolic system so well designed that even if they consume 5 kgs, the system automatically gets them back to original weight the next day.

There are no medicines to accelerate the metabolism, however, a little exercise regime with optimum food and drinks can bring the desired control.

As you turn 40, the body needs much lower amount of food and drinks, however, habitually one has gone in the 3 meals routine and ignores the body requirements. Having one meal a day with little food for breakfast is enough to bring about the desired results.

In case of a women, the fat builds very recklessly, it adds up to the thighs, the hips, the stomach, the arms, the neck, the chin, the hands, and almost everywhere. Women have to be still extra careful despite whatever the body configuration they may have till 40. Man on the other side only gains weight on his tummy. Basic reason being laziness, desk oriented jobs, wrong food quality and quantity and of course the volume of beer and alcohol consumed.

40+ is the declining stage of health and do not ignore the health calls. I have seen my own friends now suffering from diabetes, hypertension, heart disorder, liver disorder etc , though they were very very fit till 40. It is only one visit to the doctor and you find out neverously that a chronic disease has blocked you forever. Not to mention, I have also lost some of my friends at such young age ,only on account of health issues.

I strongly recommend that try the fat loss technique as worked out by me and check your metabolic equation and work out your diet and fitness program.

I tried everything under the sun, including yoga, fitness, walking, starvation etc, but finally my own experiment worked.

Good luck with your fatloss.

The Real Man

A man who boxes his boss and puts him into the hospital.

Does needful with his girlfriend and puts her into the hospital.

Deserves the Honour of Being called " The Real Man "

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Relationships


Having written about single men and single women, I must also write something on " Relationships "

Interestingly, "Relationships" is perhaps the most complex part of human life. How to relate to others, problems, situations, job, nature, etc etc is a continued challenge. But here I will write only on Man Women relationships and perhaps someday on other relationships. As I have written earlier on "Optimum" the child development code, I would write someday the " Relationships "as another important vaccine to be given to a child in his formative years.

To understand relationships one has to first understand the basic nature of man in context of bonding with women and same for women. And also has to be studied as how nature in its splendour has other living species bonding male to female.

Men relate to women as mother,sister, friend, lover, acquintance and wife. Women in a similar reciprocal fashion. But each of this relationship is vivid and interesting.

As a mother, women actually tries to design a male child as per her dreams of an ideal man and slowly resigns to see him slipping away to have his own identity. Mothers , oedipus complex is much stronger then the mans oedipus complex. She does not easily tolerate the women or girl later connecting to her child as a wife. This tacit feeling is seen more subtly and often strongly as continued interference in the life of her son. This umblical cord with her son never disconnects, though with her female child, there are no such issues. Men are therefore seen as Mama`s boy.

The relationship with sister is more fair and balanced. Does not really interfere with man, till the sister is bossy.

Relationship of Man and Women as friend is most interesting and juicy. Men interest and women`s interest are so much poles apart that to find a common ground of meeting is a very remote chance. But then nature from the teen age gets the magnets active to the opposite sexes and inevitably male and female continously strive to find their completeness in the opposite sex.

Interestingly, it is this force of nature, which then needs the two to unite and propogate. what starts as courtship and moves to honeymoon and marriage, very seldom becomes the better half of one another.

Love relationship explodes into conflicts, this is inevitable. Friendship is tasted more sparingly, without the need of commotion and purgings.

However, friendship demands honesty, the only demand but difficult.

Relationships are little like a journey. How far it takes you is your destiny. I would say, relationship is an extremely important social science, which needs to be taught chapter by chapter from early childhood and not just left over to a person to capture it with time.

It is strange that only and only when one of the two fully submits himself/herself to the other person, the relationship goes well. I dont know, why is this master-slave relationship, which only works out.

A chinese friend of mine, once told me something very nice. Man`s relationship with women is of three types : One of Man and Wife, another of man and lover and the last is that of man and friend. When I look back, I see, he is not wrong.

The best relationships are still seen in Man and his daughter.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Single Women

My last post was on the Joy of Being Single , but when it comes to women, somehow it is not Joy, but a social stigma.

More and More women across the world fail to find the right partner and are single more by way of compulsion, rather then by choice.

Japan, Korea, Singapore, US, Europe, India and almost each country, women are finding it difficult to get the right man for their life. Irony is that, most of these women do not consider single hood as source of joy and happiness and are constantly bugged by friends and family on having lost out in life.

While for a Man, to be single is not a very big issue, however, for a women, biology plays a very active roll. Child Bearing is a very strong emotion in a women and with single status, the women constantly looses out her energy enduring the situation.

Society needs to now redefine that single women have the right of bearing child and the child should be recognized same as any other child. Legal rights and religious issues should be all encompassing.

There are enough means available now for women to conceive with or without man. It is upto them to take the bold step and have a piece of their blood and flesh around them.

In Japan, where most single women own a cute dog, should now think of owning their own child along with the dog.

The other irony is that some of these women miss on the ultimate pleasure of love, in copulation. As a Hand Reader, I have seen hands of thousands of single women, who had only one query - " When would they get Married " and after the session, would confess that they had nothing to be ashamed about ( Read still virgin ) though they were now around 42 and I could only pity them.

Sex is not just a source of love and feeling, it is also a natural craving of human body to find comfort in its ultimate. The mind bubbles forth with a noble madness and with clasped hands and clutched fingers nourishes the ancient hunger
.

These sex starved women, have inherent personality defects and even if they do get married at late age, they would never be able to bring about a happy family.

Women against men has far more erogenous zones and each of these zone livens up and demands its sensation, however, is forced subdued with Moral Thought and social values. The body then reacts back and psychologically dampens the person.

Japan has become the first country, where women can actually buy a man for short time and talk intimately. Not necessarily connect physically, yet for this small window, she steps out from her world of loneliness and gets some reprieve. Most other countries need to learn the same, that single women has her own right of defraying her blocked emotions and channels of connectivity need to be opened up liberally. Internet though has opened up social fronts , but are extremely notorious.

Women is not the same in 21st century, she is far more educated, independent, strong, bold yet sensitive , career oriented and all this takes away much of nubelity , leaving her out of the age of marital connect. Unless and until men accept middle aged women as their potential better half, the situation for women is challenging. She needs to find her own space and liven up this space. Flirting is a vivid art and a flirt never runs out of currency. It also keeps the dis-connect with emotional rampage. Most single women fail miserably and try more and more to confirm to the social, orderly human then a fun, flirt and free bird.

It is upto the modern women to step out and find joy in its own single hood or live with bourgeois values.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Joy Of Being Single

Being Single Man could be as difficult as a single women never occured to me.

Every one around you is curious to know, what stopped me from getting married and there are many interesting takes on this. Some ask

Did you have a heart break? ( Many, lost count, the last one was yesterday)
Are you a Gay? ( Hmmmmmmm, why not try giving a women to me)
Do you have some physical problem? ( Yes, it is longer then average )
Did you have a Trauma? ( I have one now answering you)

And when it comes to women, the only question is

Don`t you feel lonely? ( Yes, at times )

And I have answered these queries for the last 20 years.

However, most interesting is that when I meet my married friends and I see, how their wife manages their lives, I feel extremely happy of being single.

Then the most private confession of each of the genius is that, the best thing I did was to remain single.

Relationships is an extremely complicated process and I usually jokingly tell my friends that " If each women was allowed one Free Murder, then the first person she would kill would be her husband "

Nothing is more exciting then being single . You then live the life of a Man and a Women. Not unusual that as soon as I leave for my office, my home is raided by the women around in the neighborhood to see, how I keep my house and what I cook and what books I read etc etc. My maid generously allows them in and many of them are ashamed of being nowhere as good as me in either cooking or house keeping.( pictures coming soon in my new blog Ghong-u-lu on Food N Travel )

More on single man in coming blogs.

Friday, March 26, 2010

American Health Bill

If communism was one extreme of sucking out people , then Capitalism is another extreme of human intolerance. Most of the world does not understand , why Republicans have to be against the Subsidy provided to health uninsured people.

If GM can be bailed out with billions of dollars, AIG can be bailed out, Banks can be bailed out, wars can be funded for years and years, then where is the logic, which supports that subsidy on health care is Un American.

Well, that is what is USA. A nation, where on side, people are generous in doling out billions of dollars for health care charity in Africa , but for their own set of under privileged people are reluctant to give away their tax dollar.

As it is Medical science is a failed science, wherein 90% of diseases are incurable and the top of it, if there is a support mechanism, expected from the society, then socially, we are unwilling to share our tax dollars. This is really funny for me.

I don't really need to compare Cuba or Europe or for that matter India, China and many such countries, where the health care is free or highly competitive in cost.

I also find it funny that Bush, vetoed twice the Stem Cells Bill in the name of saving of an unborn , lifeless egg and on the other side giving away the lives of young Americans to fight a war , which was rather not required.

Obama so far has moved rightly , but when it comes to dealing with the world, he is far too soft. I found Bill Clinton as one President, who had this charm and power to lead US to a Position of Strength.

Obama has so far not been able to show the same subtlety, but he still has time, as he has been engrossed with fixing up the economy and health issues etc. Nevertheless, he has done well on all counts within the US.

The real challenge still with US is Chinese undervalued currency, Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan , Climate Change and Terrorism. Which by any measure is not too much on Obama`s Plate.

Iran is almost a solved issue, given its own internal dissent.
China needs US more then US needs China, so, this is much easy, if US really wants to solve the issue.
Middle East, : Neither party is serious in resolving their issues, so just leave it in cold storage and move further.
Afghanistan is taking a good shape
Climate Change needs Carbon Tax.
Terrorism needs a UN anti terrorist force , same like UN peace keeping force. This is an international issue, so all members need to pool in the force. US cannot act as a policeman for all the time. UN has to take over this responsibility.

After this, US is up and running again , unless there are other skeletons falling from the closet and sinking the stock market, US is on its way up.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Food Blogs- Shame to the Five Star Hotels and Top Restaurants


For the life of me, I could not believe my own eyes, the kind of creativity which existed across the globe, when it came to Gastronomy.

Being a connoisseur of food and have traveled far and wide and with a passion to try one and everything which was veggie. I am overwhelmed to see the Gastronomy Adventures on the net.

The writing skills, the recipes, the pictures and the presentations are an example of mankind`s evolution of another color. Visit Tastespotting or Foodblogs or Foodgawker and so many more and one is visiting " Alice in Foodland ".

Food for me is like one of the highest form of Art. Art is something which appeals to the eyes and here is an Art Form, which appeals to the eyes, smell and tongue and finally the soul and at the end is very satisfying, when your body makes the final announcement of " Gahhhhhh"

Now, if you have been a restaurant freak and have enjoyed dining in all chains like Hyatt, JWM, Inter Continental, or Shangrila , then you know, the taste of an Industrial kitchen can never be something which is personalized and cooked leisurely with flavors . For that matter any of the top chefs there cannot match the variety and presentation of Tastespotting.

What is most shameful about fine dining restaurants is that the Menu is Printed Notice Board, where day after day , week after week and year after year, the chef makes the same dishes over and over again, without experimenting to improve or challenge the menu. This is one reason, if you stay at any five star property, you will find the no one dines in the hotel at all. ( Other then some lunch buffets or weekend buffets and that too is sliding off) One of course, other then the room charge, the hotel believes, it is there opportunity to fleeeeeeeeeeece the visitor away. Secondly , the taste is like a standard kitchen output, as if dining at McDonald's.

Why does the hotel or a fine dining restaurant not show innovation. Why on earth it should have a printed menu and why not a chalk board menu which changes as per the freshness of supplies available that day in the local bazaar.

Secondly, why do restaurants not use technology to present the food. All it needs is a LCD screen, which puts in pictures of the food and you while passing have the right to stop the screen and view further and make up your mind to step in. It does not need a menu to be placed outside the restaurant.

If all it takes a hand phone camera and a small computer to make a global presentation of your food on a blog, then the restaurants have failed miserably to spot the opportunity.

Lastly, if you are a chef yourself, then you know, how much fun is cooking .And with so much of variety thrown in to challenge you, one life is already booked trying all the recipes. For me Sunday is the cooking day and it starts with early walk to the street market, where the village fresh is allowed to be sold in the street market. Fun starts with wetting your fingers with the dew drops on the green leaves and flirting with the vendor girls and negotiating silly prices.

My maid has now become an expert on Indian, Japanese , Italian o and some Middle Eastern Veggie food with all my experimentation.

Food Blogs is a whole new world of ancient art of cooking, which got passed from grand mothers to daughters and is getting carried down. I am also looking further, some day, people will start posting on the ancient medical knowledge which got passed down in the same way. One of my friends mother came out of cancer, as the herbal doctor had a secret recipe.

Herbal Medical Recipes are the next big blog revolution, I look forward to and I am sure so much more will come out of one and every country . Rain Forest blessed countries will have the most unusual stories to tell. My own great grand mother could cure a snake bite with a mantra and some herbs and she wanted to teach this to my mother, who refused , as people told her that she would have to suffer, if she interferes with nature. Others would have been more wiser.

Love you all Food Bloggers and mine will be coming soon under the name " Ghongu-Lu"

Till then, keep reading

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Kabir - 21st century Needs You Back

By way of this blog, I am asking each country to immediately have the works of saint Kabir translated into their language and make it mandatory for each child to read his works. This alone will make compelling changes in the way the society shapes itself in the modern conflicts. UN also needs to notice that it is not only ancient heritage buildings and wildlife, which needs attention, but words of wisdom also need to be heritage-d. Modern world needs more wisdom, then more heritage sites.

Kabir is my favorite philosopher of all times. An uneducated saint, who out of simple common sense bought about a revolutionary change in the social pattern of the society. He jettisoned most religious practices and perhaps the first one of his times to challenge the religious books and religious beliefs. Not that the religious fanatics did not exist during his period, but his simple and straight poetry was more of music to the ears of people, then a debate on the religion.

If Kabir would come back and only repeat what he wrote then, he would still run away with a Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel literature price and of course would have been the most loved philosopher .

Kabir said, if God could be praised by worshiping a statue, then I am prepared to worship a mountain of a statue. But, better to worship the home grinder, that feeds the family.

For the Swiss controversy on Minarets, Kabir said in the 15th century, Mullah climbs the Minaret and screams to God, but why does he have to do that, God has not gone deaf anyway.

In Europe, the only country which recognized Kabir is France, whereas most of the world is still ignorant of this great Saint. Whose poetry needs to be recited every single day for all those who find their answers in religion and religious practices.

I will continue to write on Kabir endlessly. Meantime, if you get a chance, get the CD of Osho on Khumari, where he compares Kabir to Lord Buddha.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Japan


While I have never Traveled to Japan, but Japan has always fascinated me/

An example of a very small country which went in to not only take over most of Asia pacific in the second world war, but after being bombed to rubble by the Americans rose to one of the most advanced nations and most prosperous nation in the world.

I will not go into the history of Japan, as wikipedia is better channel for it. But what wiki does not detail is that Japanese considered themselves as the direct race as descendents of “Sun God" And well, if such a thing did exist, then they have actually proved that they are actually the descendents of “Sun God”

On my flight out of Ceylon Airport in SriLanka, I had a Japanese reporter seated next to me and we went talking. The only question I kept repeating to him and he could not answer me successfully was " How is that a country which practically had a "Martial Race", and had conquered China, Korea, Parts of Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, etc etc had now become so much calm and quiet."

Generally a Martial race is hot headed and war inclined, but Japan is an example, how a full country changed to No War Country and though on account of US dictates, yet it is the people who actually embraced the new constitution. I may have very serious differences with US on the way the Japanese King was bailed out and allowed to continue with his royalty. No matter how much symbolic, but was fully responsible for the War Crimes of First and Second World War. The allied forces made similar blunders with Nazis, where hundreds of Nazi generals got bailed out on flimsy grounds.

Further, it was Japan, who first came up with Suicide Bombers and young men laid their lives for the sake of generals who lectured them to take up such an assignment for the sake of patriotism and be a martyr. Well, I dont see much of a difference between them and the modern suicide bombers glorifying themselves in the name of religion. Both were equally Brain Damaged. When a certain class of people feel threatened, then they find enough reasons to push their young men into death traps and satisfy their own whims and fancies. If only history is correctly written and read, most young men will immediately understand the game being played with them. But till then, more young men would be drawn into martyrdom, whether in Palestine or in Pakistan.

Both Germany and Japan then went into show the world that they had the true genius besides the military errors.

Japan has overtaken Germany many folds on account of small budget on army and also the country with its strong ties with US after the war changed the country.

There is lot to learn from the Japanese. They are the best Lateral Thinkers; though very very slow thinkers and poor managers. Japanese companies are not the best place to make a career, nor it is the best companies to do business, yet they make such reliable products at such nice prices, that they don’t get ignored. Infact, they come to the top, despite all the organizational weaknesses.