watch video and answer questions

Pacific Century 6: Inside Japan Inc (Video made in 1992)[footnoteRef:1] [1: No1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUi_6_z-6Gc ); No2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zHs12e2fuQ ); No3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjUWnCaeo0 ); No.4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMkakTX2XCk ); No.5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jSWBQQ-j3Q ); No.6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHJb2C3b1Jw )]

Vocabulary:

Diet Nobusuke Kishi Miyazawa Kiichi (宮澤 喜一)

Keiretsu Zaibatsu Akio Morita (Sony Corp.)

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Mitsui (三井) Life-time employment

US-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security

The 1960 Miike （三池）Coal Mine Dispute MITI (Ministry of Int’l Trade & Industry)

Yuriko Hase (Diet member, Beret episode)

Japanese saying: “The nail that sticks out will be hammered down”

1. What were the three pillars of the Japanese Inc?

2. Who was Nobusuke Kishi(岸 信介)?

3. What group was the backbone of Japan’s Labor Union? What was your impression on the Japanese class antagonism in 1960?

4. What were the rules of the Japanese capitalism? In what way were they different from the American rules?

5. Why rice was critical to Japanese culture and rice farmers were essential politics?

6. What were Japan Inc’s biggest problems?

7. What are the differences between a Keiretsu and a Zaibatsu?

8. What domestic and international conditions contributed to Japan’s success?

9. What was the problem not mentioned in the movie?

10. Has Japan found its mission in the world after nearly 2 decades?