Emperor Akihito visits Canada
The Emperor and Empress of Japan are in Canada right now. Here’s some video of their arrival:
The Globe and Mail has an optimistic article up about how the imperial visit will help improve Canada’s image in Japan.
Experts say this heavy media coverage offers a prime opportunity for Canada to break through some of the stereotypes it faces among the Japanese, who are expected to devour coverage of the tour.
“Japan, as do most countries, has quite a limited view of what Canada is,” said Ken Coates, the president of the Japan Studies Association and a professor at the University of Waterloo. “It tends to be, ‘Let’s go see some moose, some Mounties and some mountains.’ So this is a marvellous opportunity.”
Seeing as most of the news programs I saw today devoted less than a minute of coverage to the first day of the imperial visit to Canada, I don’t expect that we’ll see anything special about Canada.
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“offers a prime opportunity for Canada to break through some of the stereotypes”
How? They have very little to offer the world market (except for some smoking hot french speaking babes in Montreal).
You don’t know Canada then. We are one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of energy.
Canada has oil/gas, wood and nature. Past those I am really hard pressed to find anything worth marketing to the Japanese. Face it, Canada is very simply a subsidiary of US operations.
You should look a little more into how much of that wood and power that we supply to the US and the rest of “world market” before you write it off as a subsidary of the US. If you wanted to play the old “who has more to offer game,” one could wonder: what does the US have to offer? Lax gun laws, obeisity, and religion controlled states?
Come on, are we all still really that ignorant? Yeesh.
We also have minerals, including diamonds. The sea ice in the Arctic is opening up to a new trading route. We are one of the world’s top producers of energy- we have plenty of resources.
Life in Canada is pretty good anyways. We have millions of people who would like residency.
You can buy maple syrup all around the world, so there’s no reason to go there to get it. Let’s be honest, Canada is a nice place to live, but boring
Being in aerospace industry, names like Bombardier and Pratt & Whitney Canada come to mind. On the IT front, Maple V, Research In Motion (BlackBerry), and ATI. Never been to Canada, but that’s what Canada is to me.
Canada on the commerce front is devoid of activity other than raping the Earth and might as well be a subsidiary to the US, but at least here we’ve got REAL freedom.
I know that last comment is going REALLY off the original topic and will most likely get modded. But I have to ask: what is REAL freedom? And why do you make it sound like only the US has it?
The US doesn’t have freedom. It has security. It’s residents traded all their freedom rights for security measures. Hooray.
“Let’s go see some moose, some Mounties and some mountains.”
If only they knew that MUCH about Canada. Nobody knows what moose and mounties are.