mercedo's Journal: Conservatives Vs Liberals

Tokyo, Kyoto, Hitotsubashi

What's this?

This is similar to Harvard, Stanford, Priceton, in USA or Oxbridge, Redbricks in the UK.

Tokyo, Kyoto, Hitotsubashi are national universities and most competitive in Japan, national university is regarded as most competitive and prestigeous, it is not difficult to just enter the private university if you are rich, but in the case of national universities, no money can buy to pass the entrance examination..

Among many graduates, graduates from the University of Tokyo are most conservative, and buraucratic, authoritative so almost all the members of the House of the Representatives are opposing to the privatisation of national postal services. Indeed spectacular to see virtually all the graduates are opposing. They all are indeed representing state socialism tainted by a strong influence of buraucrats.

On the other hands, it is rare to see the member of the House of the Representatives graduated from Kyoto University, Kyoto has been regarded as a symbol of anti-power, many graduates don't go to the politics but goes to academics. The influence of socialism/communism was( or is ) very strong.

Hitotsubashi University is a citadel of business world, until recently it is regarded less important as opposed to the University of Tokyo in real politics and to Kyoto University in academy.

Mr Heizo Takenaka is a minister for privatisation of postal services. He is a graduate from Hitotsubashi University.

I think there's a translation problem somewheres

[Marxist Hacker 42]

CONSERVATIVES against PRIVATISATION? That's unknown in the United States- where the conservatives are the ones who are always saying that business works better than government.

Re:I think there's a translation problem somewhere

[mercedo]

In 1968, all the property was nationalised under the Meiji Restoration, all property were thought to be owened by the Emperor of Meiji. That's why I call Japan a country of state socialism. Privatisation started around the end of Meiji era- circa 1900, but we have to wait even partial privatisation until GHQ General McArthor comes.

By around 1980, there were still many government owned companies, privatisation in true sense started around that time. Japan National Railways privatised. Japan Telephone&T

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[FidelCatsro]

MY views have always been that infrastructures should remain owned by the people of the country , everything else should be in a free fair market .
Telecommunications (I would include the internet service so long as its free and unrestricted), water /sewage , transportation (bar of course private cabs, cars , bike rental etc.), postal services , healthcare , police , fire service , Welfare ,Schools and universities ,, sanitation , Scientific research (whilst not restricting independent research in any way ,

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[Interrobang]

Amen, brother. The phone service here has gone to shit since they turned the Crown Corporation into just another corporation with a natural monopoly, and ditto the electricity. Any wonder we're constantly having "low power supply" alerts these days, and why the corporate fatcats and their cronies in government want to litter the landscape hereabouts with brand new nuclear power plants? Heh.

Perfessor Multigeek and I just had a conversation about this tonight.

I can sum up my view of privatisation in th

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[FidelCatsro]

You privatise an infrastructure and all you do is turn a state run monopoly into monopoly you have far less control over. plus a private company has the country by the balls " Give us a tax break or we give you a power cut", ok its early and my brain is not yet awoken so i don't have much insight right now apart from "Guh ugh ugh guh", but i am yet to witness one privatisation that has improved things at all .
BT is just as bad as ever ,Rail track and friends are worse than ever. The post office is the same

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[Iamthefallen]

Privatisation is good, when it's not screwed up.

Sweden did something similar where they turned the governmental "Televerket" into a single gigantic private company "Telia". It owned the physical carriers as well as the right to all traffic... Nice competition.

So even if Telia loses money in the service end, they make it up in revenue from the physical carriers that the competition have to lease from them.

Half-assed privatization is evil.

Your agenda that I cannot understand

[mercedo]

should be based on a free market , with tough anti competitive laws

I'm a Free market liberal socialist

This should be a lesson

[iminplaya]

to those who would so grossly generalize human behavior under false labels. It's just one more thing that shows how frivolous and meaningless these labels are. I will always maintain that they are nothing more than distractions meant to divide us and our attention away from the real pirates. Beware! Stay focused, and we might find a way to defeat them. There are those who care about the well being of others, and there are those who care only for themselves. Those who wish to take critical infrastructure out