Lessons from the achievments of Japan........

You may think that Sri Lanka is does not have the ability to creat jobs and do well in the economic and sociall fronts. but its not the case, as we as undergraduates could see. its has the ability to create miracles IF people are energertic and will work to achieve that goal definitely Sri lanka could do much more than Singapore or Maldives.

Japan after the world war when its country got destroyed from the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs, they started to re-build the country not only to that coountry it self but to rest of the world. That's why today their economy is so much developed and technology is advanced comparing with us. Did they have enough natural resources as we have? The answer is definitely NO.
They invented products to whole world by improving on quality products. they saved millions by not spending on R&D as european countries and the States did R&D for them and they did what the research showed where the potential was.
Take Motor vehicles (TOYOTA, NISSAN, MITHSUBISHI) Electronics and electrical equipments such as (SONY, PANASONIC, NATIONAL) a big market was created by the Japanese investors by exporting to all the european and asian countries as well as countries in the states. while european countries and the USA spend millions on & R&D the japanese took the maximum use of its findings.
In our case we only created products to only catered to our local population, where the mistake was...if we had clearly envisaged the far sighted approach we could have far ahead of Singapore Japan & China. In 1950's and 1960's Japan & Singapore was looking at us as an example for development. Now what has happened? Now we have to beg to other developed nations.
Actually to ask you what went wrong?? the answer to this is our past leaders didnt have a vision but they were only hungry for power.