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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @07:56PM
Well the Brits set themselves up to be a competitor to the EU rather than belong to it and play nice with fellow members. If you are in the EU and you can bring 10k new jobs to Spain by getting Japan to leave Britain, you HAVE to do it. Likewise, Britain will HAVE to drop its currency and local wages to compete with the EU. Fun fun fun! Make my trinkets, bitch.