Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

CL wrote:
> Edward Middleton wrote:
>
> > Which "sensitive technology" are you referring to.  My understanding 
> > of Japanese export controls was that they don't even require 
> > permanent residence to have access to controlled technology.  I don't 
> > think the issue is so much ethnicity as much as where the 
> > non-Japanese person holds citizenship.  If you hold citizenship in a 
> > country were export controls apply (e.g. a communist country) or one 
> > in which industrial espionage is not really prosecutable, I would 
> > image you would have problems.
>
> You are thinking too much.  Maybe 90% of what constitutes "sensitive 
> technology" is ... or was 30 years ago when I was just starting out 
> working for Japanese companies the first time around ... anything that 
> allows me to make the dollar you could make if you could set up your 
> factory to operate the same way mine does.

Well we are clearly talking about different things then.  How much 
consumer level manufacturing is carried out in Japan now?  My impression 
is that it is not a lot.

Edward