Bemused World Doesn’t Know What to Make of Brexit Britain
From Japan to India and Australia, there’s incredulity over the U.K.’s political contortions to leave the European Union.
Nissan’s car assembly plant in Sunderland.
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As ambassador to the U.K., Yoshiji Nogami helped arrange some key Japanese investments and grew to see the British people as pragmatic and practical. That was until the Brexit vote.
“Are you out of your minds?” was the former diplomat’s reaction when he heard the result of the 2016 referendum. “I knew at the time there would be a mess,” he recalled.