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Who said that? Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc are free to sell in Japan. Which is only fair since Japan makes it extremely difficult for North American companies to sell in Japan...
As I've asked before BUT many of you will not acknowledge or reply to.... "Why should North America be the dumping grounds for nations which will NOT reciprocate?"...
Again why trade apples for apples when we should be trading apples for oranges...
Life for the working, middle class in North America was MUCH better before we became the dumping market for every other nations products.... The mindset which is fostering this trend must STOP or else North America will be the next third world....
What the hell are you talking about? There are hundreds, if not thousands of North American and European companies operating in Japan.
You can sit and bitch that Camaros, F-150s and Tahoes don't sell there, but that's simply because you don't understand Japan at all. The vast majority of cars on the road are k-jidoshas, which to you would be a sub-sub-compact. Why? Because the roads in Japan are narrow and parking spaces small. Again why? Likely because Japan has FOUR times Canada's entire population (128 million give take a million) living in an area HALF the size of Alberta. And a lot of that land is mountainous to boot. That means there isn't a lot of room for giant trucks, sports cars and SUVs. Yet Japanese cars like the Mitsubishi Lancer and 350Z are kick ass sports cars. Some people do have SUVs, but they are are closer in size to the Rodeo, while pick-ups are far smaller than the average ones here (maybe you remember the old Toyota/Nissan pick-ups of the 80s - those are BIG pick-ups there, most have tiny Daihatsus). There is almost ZERO market for Toyota Tundras in Japan.
A co-worker in Japan bought a Astro Van (a wonderful GM product), because he was a surfer and it was big enough to carry him, his buddies and all their surf boards. But he had huge problems driving down the town's narrow roads, parking it, and getting spare parts for it, which much like parts for Japanese cars here in Canada, were much more expensive than for vehicles made in country.
Same goes for other products that have tried and failed, like the XBox. Japanese gamers play more cooperative games and sports games, while the XBox is geared to FPS shooters and other games that aren't as popular with Japanese gamers.
McDonalds, Coca-Cola, KFC, 7-11, Nortel, Microsoft (software), the Gap, Eddie Bauer, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Disney, Universal Studios, are just a few of the big North American companies that are HUGE in Japan. Toss in BMW, Nokia, and Mercedes, and there are plenty of European companies there too.
To make it big in Japan, you have to make a product the Japanese like, and they will buy it, and buy it in droves I might add. If you try to force your 'wonderful' product on them, it will backfire, just like Baskin-Robbins' ill-fated attempt to introduce Green Tea ice cream to North Americans in the 90s.
CKA Elite 
