It means that you cannot go away to work
abroad unless you can speak a foreign language.
Masatoshi
Takeshita
July
21, 2013
English translation of an excerpt from a
Japanese article: Diary of Lawyer in Town – July 20, 2013 –
TPP: What is
liberalization of movement of goods, money and persons?
I was impressed by a scene in an NHK TV documentary
which was broadcast long time ago. I’d
like to introduce as much as I can recall.
Minokamo City, Gifu Prefecture is a city
which has thrived by attracting plants of major consumer-electronics makers.
The last day of closure of Sony with 2,000
workers following Hitachi is shot with camera.
An interviewer asks one middle-aged
Japanese woman about her feelings and destination to work.
“I’ll go to Thailand
where I have got a job as a telephone operator.”
As the interviewer thinks
it is a temporary job and asks:
“When are you going to
come home?”
“I have no plan to come
home.”
Liberalization of persons goes something
like this.
Rather, it is safe to say that TPP is a
program intended to sophisticatedly realize the liberalization of persons,
goods and money to optimize them for capitals.
NAFTA forced millions of
Mexicans to part with farmland due to an influx of cheap corns and to flow into
the U.S. as low-wage laborers who are said to be paid 200 JPY per hour.
This deprived millions of
Americans of their jobs.
Successive transfer of production
bases to Mexico also took away employment from the U.S.
This made it possible to
optimize the situation for capitals.
TPP seeks for far more radical
liberalization.
The story of the Japanese woman in Minokamo
will become common practice for the young of the future.
Is it all right with you?
Tomorrow is the day when it is called in
question.