Japan As the Gateway to the New World Order Japan was literally reduced to ashes in the end with

the Second World War. Japanese people scavenged for anything to sustain themselves in those dark days following surrender. A piece of bark from a rotten tree or perhaps a limpid carrot root should have passed as a great meal. Each exhausting day must have already been just as bleak as the prior one. The infrastructure, what remained of it, was in total disarray. The nation was in chaos. Panic was ensuing following news spread with the devastation that the atomic bomb had wrought on the peoples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The losers (Japan) could not decide whether to embrace their conquerors or fight to the bloody death. It was only a painfully humiliating radio broadcast (in the urging of Common McCarthur) by the Emperor Hirohito in which he admitted he was not divine that allowed the Allies to bring a horrific globe event to a definable finish. 1 continuous explains the miraculous economic recovery that Japan a resourcepoor island nation of 130,000,000 people was to experience within the post-war years. That continuous was its individuals and their strict adherence to guidelines, conformity, perseverance sacrifice, and a Confucian respect for the elderly. Let us fast-forward to the Year 2006. Japan has regained some of its resiliency. The arrogant swagger with the early 80s has returned in some quarters after the economic malaise with the late 90s. An Web Technologies (IT) boom has arisen in an eerily similar manner to the one in the U.S. a few years' back. Large businesses are restructuring and discovering new company paradigms and advertising models. New trends in retailing are emerging. In Japans aging society, youth rule the roost. The ubiquitous cellular telephone is even more popular than cigarettes and booze. Old-fashioned, archaic business structures have given method to promotion by merit. Language of respect has all but disappeared except in stuffy, unwieldy organizations that represent the old Japan. Let me address the negative side of Japan? Public manners are becoming atrocious in some circles. Elders are often ignored or disrespected. Murders, kidnappings, extortions along with a host of other crimes that had been almost unheard of (outside political and gangster circles in Japan until the mid-1980s) are surging at an alarming rate. These sore points are slowly being addressed. Significantly, young individuals have no sense of urgency and no sense of direction. Money and also the pursuit of it have weakened the Japanese underbelly. Grown, employed kids frequently live at house until well into their thirties or forever. Supported by mom and dad, they stay put below the pretext that its too costly to live independently. The terror and hardship of war mean nothing to these new-age drifters. They are showered with gifts, with cash, with toys, with contraptions. They're the very first generation of children spoiled by prosperity and they harbor no sense of community responsibility. As bad a picture as I just painted, Japan is prepared to

be the center of a advertising boom. The technologies, the infrastructure, and also the trappings of contemporary life are all firmly planted. A brand new, prosperous way of life is emerging here that is fitting for the advanced society Japan has turn out to be. This really is a great location to live and to function within the next generation, as the world shifts from the West to the East. A savvy entrepreneur or netrepreneur ought to certainly be seeking to the Orient and to modern Japan as the gateway to emerging markets. By on One Piece