This article is 5 years old since I first published it in my weekly column in the UAE's Al-Khaleej newspaper, and on that day I was attacked by some specialists, until recently an international report was issued confirming that Somalia's natural resources far exceed those granted by nature to a major industrialized country such as Japan. The following is the text of the article I wrote at the time with the same title: “Poor Japan, Rich Somalia.”
Is it conceivable that Japan is a poor, barren country, while Somalia is a rich country? Japan, for example, has no natural resources, and most of its regions have a harsh and stormy climate, and its lands are prone to earthquakes and earthquakes, and who among us can forget the recent tsunami that destroyed everything in its path and cost Japan more than 100 billion dollars in losses.
It is not a joke or joke but a strange fact, confirmed by history and proved by geography, Japan has no natural resources, and most of its regions have a harsh and stormy climate and its lands are predisposed to earthquakes and quakes .
As for Somalia, it is characterized by flat areas of hills and plateaus, and in the south, the Juba and Shabelle rivers, and natural pastures cover 50% of its area, which makes it one of the countries rich in livestock, as well as fish wealth because it has extended coastlines on the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, in addition to a large amount of mineral resources, including uranium and natural gas, in addition to a large amount of mineral wealth, including uranium and natural gas. Somalia also has an important strategic location due to its control of the Bab al-Mandab Border and its transit trade routes.
Japan, after the 1945 strike that killed 700,000 people, Japanese production was no more than 10%, 10%, <span class="Apple-converted- and had only one resource at that time, rice cultivation, so they sold it at a high price and imported rice from abroad at a lower price, and the country also went to attract American companies to establish an industrial base, and converted all military factories into factories for cars and other industries, and the Japanese administration brought in American experts and allocated The Japanese administration recruited American experts and assigned each expert three Japanese who work with him and follow him like his shadow, learn from him, carry his briefcase and read his ideas until they reached the point of searching his drafts, and invented what is called the permanent job, a degree granted to every employee who has spent ten years in his work so that he achieves stability in his life, In order to make room for new blood and the entry of young ideas, Japan set the retirement age at 55 years, after which these experiences are utilized in small companies and institutions to develop them.
I think we now know the password and the key to the mystery of how Japan, a poor country with a desolate and barren nature, became the largest economy in the world, and Somalia, a rich country, turned into a ghost town waiting for aid from all countries. In fact, the big secret is "management" ... and other things.
