Quote Originally Posted by MV75
The Japanese have to import everything to then manufacture it into items. They are very very dependant on imports and would collapse without them. Self reliant is a joke phrase to use with them. Heck, they even ran out of butter of all things last year.
The Japanese economy is strong because suckers like us sell them raw materials which they manufacture into finished products and sell back to us at multiple times the value of the materials that the bought! The Australian economy is too reliant on primary industries IMHO.