The foreigners are fleeing.
I heard that comment more than once during interviews with people in Japan in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake & the tsunami. Now they are fleeing even faster, away from potential radiation leaks.
But foreigners do not flee just out of fear, or to relieve the anxiety of their own family & friends, or because life suddenly looks more attractive in another country. If you do not really ‘belong’ there is a feeling that somehow you are just getting in the way, competing for scarce resources, not really sure how best to help, intruding on private grief.
And all these reasons count towards the idea that it really does matter who owns & runs your businesses.
