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posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 06 2016, @03:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-want-a-pony-and-a-rainbow dept.

Japan's foreign ministry has taken the unusual step of publishing a very public Message to the United Kingdom and the European Union (PDF) in which it outlines how it wants Brexit to happen in order to protect the substantial investments its businesses have made in Europe and especially in the United Kingdom.

The document opens by stating that "Uncertainty is a major concern for an economy", before going on to explain that Japanese businesses that have chosen to make major investments in the UK are worried about what Brexit will mean.

"What Japanese businesses in Europe most wish to avoid is the situation in which that they are unable to discern clearly the way the Brexit negotiations are going, only grasping the whole picture at the last minute." The document therefore asks that the UK and the European Union negotiate transparently, provide lots of information about ongoing negotiations and offer decent advance warnings of any changes. Japan also hopes, fervently, that certain things don't change between Blighty and its continental pals.

High on that list is "maintaining the current level of information protection and the free transfer of data." [...] Japan also wants uniform intellectual property rights across the EU and UK and for Japanese businesses based in the UK to be able to employ Europeans. And vice-versa.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @07:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @07:23PM (#398249)

    I believe that every kid in Japan is given some English in school. Not so much German, French, Italian, Spanish, ...

    Just based on the common language (however mangled it might be), it makes a lot of sense for Japan to want to deal with England as a link to Europe.

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  • (Score: 2) by dmbasso on Tuesday September 06 2016, @08:44PM

    by dmbasso (3237) on Tuesday September 06 2016, @08:44PM (#398281)

    I believe that every kid in Japan is given some English in school. Not so much German, French, Italian, Spanish, ...

    You know who else was given some English in school? Germans, Frenches, Italians, etc.

    Engrish might have a higher impedance against Spanglish than English, but it gets the job done either way.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:43AM (#398496)
    Some English is a bit of a stretch. We have a client in Japan who married a Philippine woman, and their kids spend part of their time studying in private schools in the Philippines, and part of the time studying in Japan. They can speak English fluently, much better than their father, no thanks to what education in it they received while they were in Japan, which they commented is rather laughable. I go to Japan regularly and I have encountered very few people who can speak English with reasonable fluency, and just about all of those I know who can do it had spent a lot of time overseas before returning to Japan.