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Old 16-02-2018, 20:54   #2073
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Re: Brexit discussion
Interesting interview with Sir David Warren, British ambassador to Tokyo from 2008 to 2012, and now head of the Japan Society, the leading independent body in Britain on UK-Japan relations. Some extracts below.
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“I don’t think we should indulge in ‘Project Fear’ by thinking that disinvestment is likely or imminent,” he said. “The Japanese government and Japanese companies are pragmatic, they are not going to radically change their immediate or short-term plans.”...
“Membership of the customs union is important for Japanese companies, especially in the motor sector, because it gives frictionless access to and from the UK and EU, with large numbers of components crossing boundaries all the time. Japan will not want to see that access being undermined.”..
Sir David believes there is a strong emotional tie between Britain and Japan that will endure. “But fundamentally, every Japanese official or business figure that I meet fails to understand what we are doing.
“The EU has never placed any constraint whatsoever on trade between the UK and Japan. And the Japanese just don’t get the argument that, by leaving the EU, we are somehow throwing off our shackles.”
https://www.ft.com/content/786c8efe-...6-b9ccc4c4dbbb
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