Insight The Book #2

Honestly I don't know how to write a book review just like any "Bedah Buku" because books review needs to be done in chronologically order. Which means, whatever comes first need to write it in first.

After western people left our country, they had leave a big immigrant of Chinese and Indian population to manage. British also left the country very poor. The statistic speaks for itself. In 1957, when the British gone, at that time the country's per capita income is only USD350 and more than 70% of the population lived below the poverty lines. Not to mention the literacy rate which is very low and at that time, there were only about 100 university graduates in the whole country. British does not have any interest to make this country develop, what they care enough is to extract all of the richness and bring it to their country. This is one of the examples why Tun despise these colonial British.

How about Japanese? How they survived from the war scare? After Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been rained by atom bombs, it looks like Japan will never be able to recover from their scare. But, they proved it oppositely. Tun has launch Looking East so that we can learn from these hardworking Japanese.

Tun has provided a few stories about Japanese people how their willingness to help their country to get back on the track after losing in a war. Akio Morita, the founder of Sony Corporation in his book recalls that immediate postwar years, the Japanese workers were willing to work for just a ball of rice with some soya sauce. The West would call this is exploitation but the Japanese knew that Japan was very poor and they need to build their industries. They were working for not individual gain but for the country, to lift their country that would reflect to their better lives. They made sacrifices and they never complaint about it. Today, Japanese workers are among top highest paid in Asia.

One more thing about these Japanese is about their feeling of shame. Like military defeat, failure in business or being branded as a low quality goods also creates a sense of shame. Even the employees there are reluctant to go home early because this may give their neighbours impression that they are not being given enough work or didn't highly valued by their companies. The wives will be very embarrassed to have such a husband.This is the value that Tun has put his effort so that the workers at this country will always try to give their best when they are working. Mostly, people will undermine the government sector as being slow and unproductive compared to the private sector. This is true, indeed.

The next will be about Malay Sultanate.