This, friends, is a brief outline as to why Japan is not like Egypt, and why Egypt should eternally be hopeful to be like Japan.
Seven Decades Later
What happened to the radiation that lasts thousands of years?
We all know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in August 1945 after the explosion of atomic bombs. We also know that the city of Hiroshima returned in less than ten years to what it had been, only better and more economically vibrant than before the atomic bomb.
However, we know little about the progress made by the people of that land during the past
7 decades.
First, some telling pictures (courtesy of my friend Joe) followed by a brief outline as to the crucial, indispensable and entertaining facts behind Japan being Japan.
HIROSHIMA 1945
HIROSHIMA - 68 YEARS LATER
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Regardless of above pictures, we all know that more or less in the same time span Egypt did not, could not, become anything like Japan today. So, what happened, how did the Japanese do that?
One thing I am certain of, Japan did not have the Muslim Brotherhood running it, or for that matter their military (in control of Egypt 1952-2012).
What Japan had, and continues to have, going for it are many crucial and indispensable facts associated with successful nations (as researched by my friend Adel), including:
- Japan is a country keeping Christianity, Islam and Judaism out of the public sector.Have you ever read in the newspaper that a political leader or a prime minister from an Islamic nation has visited Japan? Have you ever come across news that the Pope of the Vatican, Ayatollah of Iran, the King of Saudi Arabia, Imam of Azhar; or the Rabbi of Jerusalem visited Japan?
- Japan's Kaizen culture, a Japanese business philosophy of higher management standards, continuous improvement of productivity, quality, working practices, personal efficiency, etc.
- Japan set as national goals to become a beacon of science, industry, innovation, education, and wealth creating and sharing nation.
- Japan does not have a welfare system: work for it or do without.
- Japan is in the lead in most scientific research and pursuits. Japanese scientists and executives are world class in all disciplines: from music to medicine; from agriculture to space; and of course engineering and design; information management and information technology; as well as the Japanese monopoly on certain car and engine design and manufacturing. Their emergency preparedness is unparalleled and was tested with a world most destructive Tsunami combined with an earthquake that produced a nuclear disaster that Japan managed ALONE!
- Japan has reinvented itself many times. Its recent success is rooted in its ability to partner with most sectors and nations based on its value added; willingness to leverage knowledge and broker power, its advanced banking strength, and carrying Japan’s tradition in design integrity and value.
- Scholastically, Japan rivals the best of them all because of its youths commitment to excellence, family values that support learning, science and achievement, and a culture of strong competition and achievement.
- Japanese children clean their schools every day for a half an hour with their teachers. This led to the emergence of Japanese generations who are modest and keen on cleanliness.
- In Japan, students from grades 1 to 6 must learn ethics in dealing with people and issues. They learn conflict and anger management.
- In Japanese schools there is no examination from the first to the third primary level; because the goal of education is to instill concepts, values, and character building, not memorizing for examination and indoctrination.
- Japanese students take half an hour to finish their meals to ensure right digestion, and to clean afterwards.
- Japanese people who have friends or neighbors with special needs, they pick them up and help them in their daily chores, e.g., shopping or cooking for them.
- Garbage workers in Japan are respected, well-paid, and are public-health educated.
- Japan prevents the use of mobile phones in trains and restaurants out of respect for others. You can spend 6 days in jail if you drive and text.
- Japanese do not have servants. They take care of themselves and their extended families. Parents help at home and with children when needed. They consider servants as slavery.
- Japanese people eat only as much as they need without any waste, even at open buffets.
- Delayed trains in Japan average about 7 seconds per day! They respect the riders and the value of time.
Hussein
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it -- but all that had gone before." Jacob Riis
