オーストラリアの最も有名な車ブランドであったホールデンが2020年いっぱいで廃止となることは親会社であるジェネラルモーターズ社の17日発表で分かった。
1908年に始まったオーストラリア国内製造が2017年に終わったが以降シボレー車が輸入されてホールデンブランドで販売された。
しかし、販売数が伸び悩み、結局GMがホールデンブランドを廃止することを断行した。
一時、オーストラリア製造業の象徴であったホールデン車が事実上存在しなくなる。
販売終了後、約10年間メンテナンスのために200人程度を雇用する予定はしている、とGMがいう。
Kangaroo meat is selling like hotcakes in Japanese convenience stores.
Sales of protein-related products are skyrocketing against a backdrop of growing fascination for weight training.
All protein-related products grew 40% year on year at Natural Lawson convenience stores from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2019.
And September 2019 sales increased 70% YoY, with kangaroo meat being a prime driver at the chain’s 143 stores in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Tokyo-based Vasel Inc. sells kangaroo meat under the RooMeat and Paroo brands throughout Japan, including the roo jerky selling strongly at convenience stores.
“Kangaroo meat is the pinnacle of red meats. Its saturated fats are 20 times better for you than beef and kangaroo meat is really popular among women with a strong awareness of beauty,” a Vasel spokesman recently told the Japanese media.
Vasel’s targets are those seeking an athlete’s diet of high-protein, low calorie foods, and women with a strong awareness of beauty and maintaining a healthy weight.
Kangaroo meat is not produced by keeping roos as livestock, but by capturing wild kangaroos and processing the meat. Vasel has imported kangaroo meat into Japan from Australia since the 1980s. Demand has grown significantly in recent years and it now imports 50 tons annually.
“There’s growing interest in red meat. Game is becoming increasingly popular within the dining industry. Women and athletes who are concerned with their health are eating kangaroo. We have focused on branding the meat as RooMeat since 2014, and the robust sales we’re seeing now are probably reflecting that,” the Vasel spokesman said.
On this day 70 years ago, Australia launched a domestic automaking industry at Fishermen’s Bend in Melbourne to produce Holden cars.
Not many outside Australia that the Great Southern Land once produced cars, and perhaps even fewer still are aware that Oz exported some models to Japan.
These weren’t cars assembled in Australia and shipped to the world’s then second-largest car market (as would happen in the late 1980s and 1990s, notably with the Subaru Outback).
They were cars made with the intent of attracting Japanese consumers.
Ironically, one of the cars marketed was the Mazda Roadpacer, a car slightly adapted from an iconic Australian car, the Holden Kingswood.
Holden would make the cars in Australia and export them as Holden Premiers, the luxury version of the Kingswood, to Japan, where they would be given even further added attractions.
The car was supposed to be used by high-ranking government officials, but the timing of the enterprise could hardly have been worse.
The gas-guzzling Kingswood-derivative was first sent to Japan in 1975.
Sales weren’t ever as good as hoped for, however, and were not aided by the oil shock, which sent petrol prices skyrocketing throughout the 1970s.
After selling only 800 units in two years, Mazda withdrew the Kingswood from the Japanese market.
The main character of the show, Ted Bullpitt, routinely derided Japanese cars during the program’s run from 1980 to 1984, using such terms as “Datsun deviant” for drivers of Nissan vehicles.
Ironically, the Kingswood would soon become an even bigger icon in its home country with the debut of Kingswood Country, a TV comedy about a bigoted suburban Australian man and his family whose great pride and joy was owning a Kingswood.
But it wasn’t just Kingswoods, either, that Australian automakers (well, Holden) were sending to Japan.
Arguably the premiere Australian vehicle, the Statesman de Ville, had also gotten a run in the Land of the Rising Sun a couple of years earlier and uncannily left an almost identical record.
The de Ville, also made by Holden, had been added to the Isuzu lineup of passenger vehicles for 1973-4.
It retailed at a then hefty 3.48 million yen (when starting wages were just over 60,000 yen per month).
Though car enthusiasts and critics were generally upbeat about the de Ville, it failed to touch a nerve with consumers despite golf superstar Jack Nicklaus being used to plug the car in Japan.
The de Ville was removed from the Isuzu range in 1975 after having sold fewer than 250 cars in the then still booming Japanese auto market.
Alas, despite the best efforts of Australian workers, the Oz automaking industry would ultimately suffer the same ignominious fate as its luxury car exports to Japan had seen: humiliating ends.
Buffered by considerable protection into the 1980s, the Australian car manufacturing industry coughed and spluttered its way through the final decade of the 20th century and into the first years of the new millennium.
But by the second decade of the 21st century it was clear that Australian automakers had priced themselves out of the market, mostly by overpaying C Suite types, but also by being unable to compete with countries that did not pay workers a fair wage.
Holden and Toyota Australia were the last automakers to maintain manufacturing plants in Australia, but both closed in 2017.
Holden and Ford Australia still have design and development facilities operating in Australia, so the country is still theoretically capable of producing cars.
An Australian-made Statesman de Ville featuring in a 1979 Japanese TV cop drama.
Japanese report on the Roadpacer (Kingswood)
Automotive Industry in Australiaオーストラリア製アメ車に13B搭載!?マツダ・ロードペーサーAPはセンチュリーより高級だった？
A long, long time ago, in a Straya far, far away, Australia briefly exported cigarettes to Japan.
It wasn’t that long ago, actually.
But for several months in 1994, Winfield cigarettes, one of Australia’s most famous brands (it marketed itself as “Australia’s No. 1 brand” in Japan, but it was actually only the second-biggest seller Down Under, behind Peter Jackson), was an unlikely competitor of mostly British and American Big Tobacco companies to tap into what was still then a thriving Japanese smokers’ market largely unregulated at the time.
Winfield was on a downturn at the time in its home country.
Cigarette advertising had been banned from TV and print media decades earlier, but by the mid-1990s in Australia had also been outlawed from outdoor displays and sporting events that tobacco company sponsorship had largely kept afloat.
Japanese Winnie Reds
Japanese Winnie Blues
考えRooがオーストラリアについてプレゼンをしましたので、その内容が以下の通りとなりました。コメントなどをぜひ送ってください。
今のオーストラリアの概要
* オーストラリアはラテン語で「南大陸」という意味
* 本土に加えてタスマニア島を含め数多くの島々で構成、面積はおよそ770万㎢であり、日本の約25倍ある
* GDPが世界19位、一人当たりのGDPは世界9位
* 人口が2500万人弱、日本の約5分の1
* 住民の80%以上がヨーロッパ系の白人であり、その他にアジア人が約12%、先住民などが約2%
* ヨーロッパ人在住が1788年から始まり、イギリスの刑務植民地として開拓された
* 当時、イギリス法はオーストラリアを「無人」扱いだったが、先住民がそこですでに数万年間住んでいた
オーストラリア先住民と
トレス海峡諸島民
虹蛇
コロボリー
先住民部族
* 女性が吹くと妊娠するので吹いてはいけない、部族によっては反対に女性が吹くと不妊になるので吹いてはいけないという伝承がある。女性は触れてもいけないとする部族もある。
* スナックが昆虫で、ウィッチティグラブというイモムシが最も有名な例
* 入植の1788年から20世紀に入る間、ヨーロッパ人の開拓が広がったにつれ、先住民と摩擦が激しくなった
歴史戦争| 先住民英語 | 英語 | 日本語（一般オージー英語・先住民英語） |
|---|---|---|
| Camp | Home | キャンプ場・家 |
| Cheeky | Disrespectful | 生意気・尊敬しない |
| Deadly | Fatal | 致死的・かっこいい |
| Gubbah | Caucasian | 白人（いずれも） |
| Fella | Person | 人（男女問わず）・人（男を暗示） |
| Unna? | Aint it? | だろう？（いずれも） |
| 日本語 | 元の言語 |
|---|---|
| ブーメラン | トルワル後（現シドニー周辺）boumarrang |
| コアラ | ダルク語（現シドニー周辺）gula |
| ワラビ | ダルク語 walabi |
| ディンゴ | ダルク語 dingo |
| ウォンバット | ダルク語 whom-batt |
| ビラボング | ウィラジリ語（現ニューサウスウェールズ州中央部）bilaban |
| カンガルー* | グーグ・イミディル語（現クイーンズランド州北部）gangurru |
Punk Doily, a recently opened cafe, offers a heavenly touch of Australia made by a Saint in a small nook in Oyamadai, Setagaya-ku.
最近開店したパンクドイリーがセイントが作るオーストラリア風素晴らしいご馳走を提供している。
Punk Doily’s sausage rolls are authentically Oz, faithfully providing not only the flavor of the tuckshop, but also adding pleasures for the gourmand that the Japanese excel at.
パンクドイリーのソーセージロールは本格的なオージー味であり、学校売店の懐かしい料理を誠実に再現する上に日本人の特異な上質なグルメを加える。
Available in sage and fennel flavors, the sausage rolls use pork from exclusively potato-fed pigs, and have a hearty, mouth-watering meat that tastes perfect without the need of excessive herbs, spices or other additives.
セージとフェンネル味があり、ジャガイモが飼料の豚から得る豚肉使用によって濃厚な美味しさがあり、余計なハーブやスパイスなどが使用不要。
Wash down the delicious savory snack with one of the selection of Punk Doily’s coffees. The Australian-style, rich brews are sublime, the hand drip providing a strong flavor and delicious aroma.
うまみたっぷりなおやつと共にパンクドイリー作コーヒーを一杯のみと良い。オーストラリア風の濃くある抽出が格別であり、ハンド・ドリップの味が濃厚で香りもよい。
Sweets are another highlight of Punk Doily! On the day of our visit there were delightful salted, triple chocolate cookies, sake-infused cherry tarts and rum raisin brownies. Sublime! The cafe serves up some utterly amazing treats. Check out their Facebook page for some of the other fabulous fare on offer.
また、パンクドイリーのもう一つのハイライトが何と言ってもスイーツ！訪問した当日提供したのは日本酒に浸けたチェリータルト、ラム酒漬干しブドウブラウニーと三種類のチョコが入っているトリプルチョコレートクッキー！何と言っても最高にうまかった！その他にもたくさんの美味しいご馳走を提供するので、詳しくは同店のフェースブックページを参照にしてください。
Enjoy Punk Doily’s delicious coffee and culinary delights on site or take out.
パンクドイリーの美味しいコーヒーと料理は店内で楽しんでもテークアウトも出来ます。
Punk Doily is located about the Tamagawa Christ Chuo Church at 3F, 3-28-21 Oyamadai, Setagaya-ku Tokyo 158-0086, Tokyo 158-0086. Tel: 090-4702-7959 Open Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
パンクドイリーは玉川キリスト中央教会の上３Fにある、所在地が3ー28ー21尾山台東京都世田谷区。電話が090-4702-7959。営業は土日の11時から5時となっている。
Incidentally, if you’re interested in finding our more about the connection with the saints, go to Punk Doily yourself.
ちなみに、上記のセイントについてもっと詳しく知りたいなら、ぜひ直接お店に足を誇んで自分に聞いて見るといいと思う。
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (left) and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, at a meeting in Tokyo this week
The two right-wing leaders also threw a joint luncheon made using pricey Australian ingredients with Japanese-influenced dishes.