FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REV
Isn't that an odd
shape for a bow?
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Not really. The bulbous bow is a feature of the mammoth tankers Mitsubishi builds. But this is the very first time a high-speed cargo vessel has been designed with such a large
one.
The bulbous bow allows this ship to attain high speeds while fully loaded with only 13,000 H.P. instead of the usual 18,000 H.P. Mitsubishi didn't arrive at this bow shape by accident. Months - years of testing various ship models, each shaped with precision, came first. Of course, all the companies that bear the Three Diamonds mark have excel- lent facilities for research and testing in their own respec- tive fields. They have to. Mitsubishi is the biggest name
in Japan for industry, commerce and finance. There's a reputation to uphold abroad, too, and the very latest tech- nological methods must be employed if Mitsubishi is to maintain its present ranking in domestic and world affairs.
MITSUBISHI NIPPON HEAVY-INDUSTRIES, LTD.
SHIN MITSUBISHI HEAVY-INDUSTRIES, LTD.
MITSUBISHI SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING CO., LTD. (Mitsubishi Zosen)
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED
MITSUBISHI BANK, LTD.
MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA, LTD. (General Importers & Exporters) Mitsubishi Shoji Bldg., Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
OVERSEAS TRADE NETWORK: Calcutta, New Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Karachi, Lahore, Dacca, Colombo, Rangoon, Bangkok, Saigon, Manila, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta, Taipei, Hongkong, Naha, Sydney. Melbourne, Auckland, Wellington and 40 other major cities of the world.
October 31, 1963
-VIII-Training Courses for Foreigners in
Japan 1963-4
Numbers Months
Numbers Months
Prevention of Narcotics
Port engineering 10
4
10
2
Auto engineering 12
11
Radio isotopes
15
2
Railway engineer-
Crime counselling 10
3
ing
10
3
Economic planning 15
2
Postal services
8
1
TB control
20
Telex communic.
6
4
Risiculture
7
Short-wave
7
Farm mechanisa-
Telegraphing
10
tion
17
6
Micro-wave
15
Forestry
5
5
TV engineering
12
4
Wood processing 5
5
TV programmes 9
2
Home improve-
School broadcast-
ment
5
2
ing
13
2
Animal health
10
6
Vocation training 10
2
Agric. cooperatives 10
6
Foremen training 10
10
Fisheries
10
6
Vocation instruc-
Farm methods
20
11
tors
10
10
Coastal fishery
20
11
Textile machinery 10
8
Supervisory train-
ing
10
Offset printing
10
6
Electric power
20
4
Bridge engineering 10 Earthquakes
15
Ports & harbours 30
2
Dam engineering 10
Surveying, maps. 10
4
City planning
10
4
TOTAL
446
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2474.
Fiscal year April 1963-March 1964, Overseas Technical Co-opera- tion Agency (OTCA) plans including Colombo Plan for group train- ing and seminars for Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Source: OCTA, Tokyo.
Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, International Trade etc. In the same building in Tokyo is the Asia Zeizai Kinchiko, or In- stitute for Asian Economic Research, also Government-sub- sidised, which has several scholars at work abroad. Then there is the Asia Kaikan or Asia House, started by private firms with a loan from the Government Housing Corporation to accommodate Asian technicians coming to Japan for study. The OTCA is to put up a new one now with 200 beds to meet the growing needs.
The OTCA (President, Kobayashi Ataru; Director- General, Shibusawa Shinichi) got a Yen 1,600 million budget from the Government for the current 1963 Fiscal Year (against Yen 1,400 million last year and Yen 1,300 million in 1961): a further Yen 20 million a year is usually contributed by private industry. The Agency depends on private industry for the execution of its training programmes (getting experts to go abroad, etc) and therefore cultivates businessmen as- siduously. It hopes that the 20% increase in its annual budget will continue, and estimates that about one-fifth of its ex- penditure is in foreign exchange. It has four main heads of activity.
First it receives trainees from developing countries (Tables V, VI, VII) over 900 last year including 200 In- donesians under reparations. The sort of courses offered is shown in Table VIII. Language is the big problem here: it is recognised that to teach a foreigner enough Japanese to
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will be published on November 14.
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follow technical courses in Japanese would take too long, more than two years. Most lectures are therefore given in Japanese (because there are not enough Japanese both expert in a technical special- ism and fluent in English, and the few who exist are treasured jealously by the big corporations) and translated by an interpreter. So it happens that a Brazilian has to try to learn micro-wave telegraphy from a Japanese lecturer through the medium of a third language (English) in which neither of them is fluent. Equally difficult, the OTCA says, is the great difference in levels of knowledge within a foreign class. Trainees receive $5 a day and usually stay six months (exceptionally a year or even two): some marry Japanese girls but are not, of course, allowed to settle in Japan. Within a few years it is hoped that the number of trainees received will quintuple to 5,000 a year,
Secondly the OCTA send Japanese experts (about 100 a year at present, but it hopes to increase this to 500 within a few years) to various countries. They are all English-speak- ing and the Agency has given up trying to get Spanish-speakers or French-speakers. Here again the OCTA has to secure these men from private firms who are reluctant to spare them. but it is now hoping to acquire semi-permanent experts. The latest venture of spreading Japanese light into Europe is the despatch of earthquake experts to Jugoslavia.
Thirdly the OTCA provides equipment for overseas technical centres, listed in Table IX. Some of these, for small- scale industries, are under Ministry of International Trade and Industry supervision. Stress now is on handing the centres
IX-Technical Training Centres under.
Japanese Assistance
As of June 1, 1963
Country India
Pakistan (Dacca) Thailand (Bangkok)
Iran
Afghanistan
Ceylon (Negoinbo) Thailand (Bangkok) Brazil
India (Mangalore) India (Bengal, Bihar, Gujerat and Orissa) Ghana Burma
Pakistan (Haripur) Nigeria Kenya
Thailand
* expected.
Field of Training small-scale industries agriculture telecommunications small-scale industries small-scale industries fisheries
virus research textile industries marine product processing
agriculture
textile industries
telecommunications
Agreement signed
Opened
Jao. 1960 Dec. 1962 Jui. 1960 Sep. 1960 Aug. 1960 Jan. 1962 Sept. 1960
Sep. 1962 Mar. 1961 Jul. 1963* Mat. 1961 Oct. 1961 Nov. 1961 Feb. 1963 Mar. 1962 Sep. 1963*
Mar. 1962 Jul. 1963* Apr. 1962 Jul. 1962 May
Mar. 1964*
1963
agriculture
electronic training institute
under negotiation
small-scale industries
small-scale industries
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo.
over to local instructors.
Fourthly the OCTA makes pre-investment surveys: since July 1962 nineteen teams have been despatched, 13 of them to Asian countries (Nepal, Burma, India, Thailand, Indonesia, the Mekong etc.).
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The Future
It would be heartening to think that Japan's foreign aid effort could rise pari passu with its own economic growth say by 6% or 7% a year. But the growing balance-of-pay- ments problems of Japan as she progressively liberalises her international trading and capital movements may prevent this. The Gaimusho firmly resists the notion that the task of con- solidating the momentum of Japanese economic growth be jeopardised by over-generous handbuget282 F344
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