[Whispers of Society] An Industrial Cluster Vision That Japanese Politicians Cannot Achieve!
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Well, the other day, I posted this article👇. I wrote that although Taiwan's history of democracy is shorter than Japan's 80 years of post-war democracy, having transitioned in 1996, it is already ahead of Japan with its pluralistic political methods that utilize digital technology.
In Japan, partly due to the influence of the House of Representatives electoral system, recent Diet members have sought to distribute budgets evenly across all regions, aiming for dispersion rather than concentration.
As a model for industrial clustering, Taiwan promoted the Silicon Island Vision learned from Silicon Valley, where Hsinchu Science Park has brought together over 500 semiconductor-related companies, led by TSMC, to enhance their global competitiveness.
In the case of Taiwan, where such industrial clustering is progressing, the target for concentrated budget allocation to improve international industrial competitiveness is clear, and they have put forward the Five Trusted Industries.
A clear policy targeting "semiconductors," "AI," "military industry," "cybersecurity," and "next-generation communications" is wonderful.
Japanese politicians are pathetic. They put together a 3.6 trillion yen unprecedented budget for child-rearing support, raising funds through a crooked method of adding to the national health insurance premiums of all citizens, and the Kishida Cabinet decided to distribute it to child-rearing generations, yet the number of births last year was under 700,000. It seems unlikely that the 3.6 trillion yen will have any effect at all.
That's to be expected. Citizens who feel they can't even secure their own future employment have no reason to trust such a government, and there's no way the number of children will increase.
Meanwhile, cherry-picking of the industrial clustering that attracted TSMC to Kumamoto with the "Silicon Island Kyushu Vision" is beginning.
As for what will happen in Japan's political system, it tends to become "It's unfair that only Kyushu gets it," "Give Hokkaido a Silicon Island Hokkaido budget too," rather than concentrated budget allocation, leading to competition for 'too small' investments due to dispersion, which does not increase competitiveness.
In the end, it just repeats the trend of the last 30 years where young people gather in Tokyo, which has a huge budget and the leeway to distribute it, in search of jobs.
Even if the active fiscal policy group just demands more budget without any vision of what they want to do by increasing government spending, it will have the same result as the unprecedented child-rearing budget. With the current Japanese political system, which only has the wisdom to disperse new industrial investments out of consideration for individual local electoral districts,
I feel that wise policies like Taiwan's are impossible.
If Diet members themselves, rather than bureaucrats, cannot even consolidate opinions on a vision and continue to waste the budget, the decline will likely not stop.
To what extent can Diet members envision industrial clustering that puts "Japan First"?
I don't think there is much time left, though...
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