[steel]

..continued.

Note to foolish foreigner: Your Japanese staff think you are a buffoon, regardless of what they say to your face. Your position and status are compromised. The respect they held for you - if they ever had any - is completely compromised. Remember: It takes a very long time to build trust, it takes one action to destroy that trust forever.)
What are you going to do about it, foreign manager?

These sorts of people, who shirked their duties, like Mr. Roos have been compromised. They should be removed from their positions.

UPDATE! Alert reader, Thomas P. Logan adds this:


No doubt you have heard this from the WSJ (Japan Real Time) just today, too, Mike?
Things that make you go hmmmmmm.....

U.S. Embassy Gives Potassium Iodide, a Radiation Safeguard, to Citizens in Japan - Japan Real Time - WSJ