Browse > Home / Business / Japan Post, Secom and whaling

Japan Post, Secom and whaling

June 11, 2008
By Ken Worsley


Although time constraints have made it difficult to keep up the pace of updates over the past week, two stories have just come out that should not be ignored and need to be further examined. For now, just the links, with a quick comment:

1. Japan Post to Outsource Rural Operations to Secom - Bloomberg/Nikkei
This is highly interesting, as Secom is a firm that provides security services as its core operations. Although Secom has slowly been building the number of outsourced public services contratcs, an agreement to deliver mail is an eye opener.

In Setagaya Ward of Tokyo (and in other places), Secom employees drive around in sedans painted to look like Japanese police cars, though they have blue sirens. The police, of course, can often be seen on bicycle.

2. Japan’s oldest whaling town battles for survival - Reuters
If this is so, is it not time for the Japanese government to step in and subsidize training programs and/or public projects to help these people work their way into the post-industrial economy? Or will the Ministry of Agriculture continue to subsidize this sunset industry, tricking the residents into believing that their being held back economically is somehow for the greater good of culture?

Filed Under Business 

Social Bookmarks:
del.icio.us:Japan Post, Secom and whaling digg:Japan Post, Secom and whaling newsvine:Japan Post, Secom and whaling furl:Japan Post, Secom and whaling reddit:Japan Post, Secom and whaling
Related Posts:
More on support for the whaling industry
Does the Japanese public support Whaling?
Japan Decides not to hunt humpbacks, for now
Japan imports whale meat from Norway and Iceland for first time in 18 years
Job prospects looking bleaker for 2010 graduates

Comments

2 Responses to “Japan Post, Secom and whaling”

  1. Pellegrini on June 15th, 2008 11:13 am

    Why does any mention of mercury in this ongoing argument only ever get one line of print?

    The science on this needs to be publicized, repeatedly, so that the kids in that area don’t have to eat this stuff at school and then suffer the health consequences later in life.

  2. zzYettizz on June 15th, 2008 4:59 pm

    Why does mercury have to be so anti-Japanese?

Got something to say?