The ROC's banana exports to Japan earn the country several tens of millions of NT dollars a year, but require the time and labor of tens of thousands of households. Meanwhile, one Japanese engineer comes to Taiwan with a briefcase holding a few blueprints of industrial technology and quickly earns those tens of millions of NT right back.
過去國內香蕉銷售日本，每年都賺取了幾千萬的外匯，但是投入的二萬戶人力與時間都也相當可觀；而一位日本工程師，提著手提箱來到台灣，憑著幾張工業技術上研究開發的藍圖，沒多久就輕鬆地把那幾千萬又賺回去了。