Global Standards

I just watched yet another NHK special on International Organization for Standardization. It seems that Japanese lack visions and strategies to make their technological innovations. (But Americans are a little (?) too selfish and stubborn in insisting their standards be global.) I wonder what on earth the Ministry of International Trade and Industry has been doing. If they continue to import/imitate policies from the US (as they have been doing since who knows when), Japan will always remain subordinated to the US.

Here again, I should like to relate this problem to education: we need to transform the Japanese educational system to produce people who can analyze issues at hand comprehensively and articulate strategies to make best of them.