Airbus rejected by Japan’s manufacturers

October 27th, 2005 at 20:06 Björn Hallberg

Why is Japan the only region where Airbus can’t quite make it? Care to guess?

MAINICHI - Japan’s top three manufacturers have so far rejected offers from Airbus of contract work on the planned A350 jets, citing their order commitments to rival Boeing Co., Airbus Chief Executive Gustav Humbert said Wednesday.

Airbus, based in Toulouse, France, controls 62 percent of the airplane market in Europe, 49 percent in America and 55 percent in the Asia Pacific region, but only 4 percent of the Japanese market.

Japan and the US continue to have an improper relationship. This is but the most trivial of its consequences. Who stands most to gain and most to lose from untangling the two is anyone’s guess. We do know however that there are some costs that are obscured and not purely economic. I’m talking of course about the immense troop detail and the vast military bases that defile the Japanese countryside. For the people of Okinawa for instance, the cost of this unholy alliance is only too real.

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