PM Junichiro Koizumi on a visit to the ribbon factory. Courtesy KCEM
Small and Medium Enterprises have been for years been the cornerstone of the Japan's economic and overall success.
It was Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's turn to shower all praises on them as he recounts his visit to two such enterprises yesterday in his Koizumi Cabinet E-Mail Magazine No. 218.
One being a ribbon manufacturing company based Taito Ward and other being a small metal processing factory at Sumida Ward and we reproduce it here, verbatim:
"Yesterday afternoon I visited small- and medium-sized enterprises in Tokyo; one of which was a small metal processing factory of six employees located in Sumida Ward.
This factory uses its unique technology to develop and produce a painless syringe needle as thin as 0.2 millimeters in diameter at its tip. The needle was tried on my arm, and indeed it did not hurt at all. I am sure with this needle people can get shots without worrying about the pain and
with peace of mind.
The other place I visited was a showroom of a ribbon manufacturer located in Taito Ward. The company receives worldwide attention, boasting a wide selection of 40,000 types of vivid-colored ribbons which have drawn the interest of the topnotch designers in Paris, New York and other cities of the world, and are used in the latest fashion these trendsetters establish.
I was both encouraged and proud that the small- and medium-sized enterprises in Japan support the vitality of the Japanese economy and society through their manufacturing technologies and skills for generating attractive designs, as well as of the fact that these enterprises are operating on a global scale."
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