12-23-2005, 02:23 PM
Comparing other countries who might have been in similar predicament as India, Dharampal talks about Japan..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Soon after Japan resumed links with the West around 1860, it sent some of its young men to the countries of the West. One of them, Maeda Masa-na, who went to France in 1869, felt very depressed for many months. Seeing Parisâs splendour, he felt that Japan would never be able to match it. But soon after the Franco-German War, France seemed to be in shambles and had to rebuild itself again. While the happening itself must have made him sad, somehow his spirits picked up, and from then on Masana could write: âI felt con-fidence in our ability to achieve what the West achieved.â
He returned to Japan in 1878, and became one of the chief archi-tects of Kogyo Iken: Japanâs ten-year plan, completed in 1884 in thirty volumes. Discussing the various constituents which were required to make such a plan functional, the document stated:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Which requirement should be considered as most important in the present efforts of the government in building Japanese indus-tries. It can be neither capital nor laws and regulations, be-cause both are dead things in themselves and totally ineffective. The spirit/willingness sets both capital and regulations in motion...If we assign to these three factors with respect to their effectiveness, spirit/willingness should be assigned five parts, laws and regulations four, and capital no more than one part.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Soon after Japan resumed links with the West around 1860, it sent some of its young men to the countries of the West. One of them, Maeda Masa-na, who went to France in 1869, felt very depressed for many months. Seeing Parisâs splendour, he felt that Japan would never be able to match it. But soon after the Franco-German War, France seemed to be in shambles and had to rebuild itself again. While the happening itself must have made him sad, somehow his spirits picked up, and from then on Masana could write: âI felt con-fidence in our ability to achieve what the West achieved.â
He returned to Japan in 1878, and became one of the chief archi-tects of Kogyo Iken: Japanâs ten-year plan, completed in 1884 in thirty volumes. Discussing the various constituents which were required to make such a plan functional, the document stated:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Which requirement should be considered as most important in the present efforts of the government in building Japanese indus-tries. It can be neither capital nor laws and regulations, be-cause both are dead things in themselves and totally ineffective. The spirit/willingness sets both capital and regulations in motion...If we assign to these three factors with respect to their effectiveness, spirit/willingness should be assigned five parts, laws and regulations four, and capital no more than one part.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->