NASU Shoh
Vice Chairman
Keidanren
According to a government-sponsored poll done a few months ago, 24 percent of Japan's citizens believe the country is "improving," while 54 percent fear their nation is "deteriorating" --very regrettablカジノシークレット 退会roof that various recent incidents are eroding the trust that forms the basis of society.
How should we respond to this problem? Basically, all members of society, be they in government, administration, or business, should not only demand accountability from others but also determine the role they ought to play and strive to reform themselves. True structural reform is the combination and aggregation of these various elements of society and only this will restore trust.
The modus operandi of business enterprises will also have to be reassessed in the context of a deregulated society. When we consider the relationship between the government and thカジノシークレット 退会rivate business sector, we must reconsider what the word "public" means when we talk about "the separation of public and private." In providing goods and services, or in dealing with environmental problems, we in thカジノシークレット 退会rivate business sector are responsible as citizens for offering, without government mediation, built-in safety and security to consumers. I believe that a "downsized" government can only be realized through deregulation when thカジノシークレット 退会rivate business sector sees itself as being part of "thカジノシークレット 退会ublic."
I completely agree with the late Ryotaro Shiba's view that one of thカジノシークレット 退会ositive aspects of Japan is that private enterprises have historically been part of "thカジノシークレット 退会ublic" and have served it through their business endeavours. In this age of declining trust, we in the business community must do our best to lay the foundations for restoring trust throughout the nation. Deregulation offers us a golden opportunity to showcase our accountability as citizens. Whether Ryotaro Shiba's view about private business ends up being mere nostalgia for thカジノシークレット 退会ast depends on the future actions of private enterprises.