TIME Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (TIME MagazineInstagram)「Japan's Tadashi Yanai grew Uniqlo into a global force. Now he thinks he knows how to fix his country. “Wake up!” Yanai says squarely. “Japan is not an advanced nation at all, because we have been in a dormant state for 30 years.” His sobering pitch is that Japan’s economy is teetering on a precipice because of an unhealthy obsession with manufacturing, workers conditioned to corporate bloat, and a budget financed by soaring debt rather than tax receipts. Yanai is putting his money where his mouth is and in March hiked the wages of his 8,400 or so employees in Japan by up to 40%. “That still is low; it should be much higher,” he confesses. He’s calling on Japan’s government to take similarly proactive measures such as raising interest rates and making sweeping regulatory changes to prevent the nation of 125 million from sleepwalking into disaster. Uniqlo’s agility and swelling global prominence runs counter to the diminishing imprint of many storied Japanese firms. Up until the 2000s, Japan teemed with engineering pioneers: Casio; Seiko; Fujifilm. But in recent years, complacency, conservative leadership, and fierce competition have seen Japanese brands fall behind. “Japanese businesses are managed as if they are looking in the rear-view mirror,” Yanai says. Read the cover story in full at the link in bio. Photograph by Ko Tsuchiya (@kotsuchiya) for TIME」11月13日 22時04分