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Renan Santos????? - Qual a estratégia do Japão?
26 statements · 1 politicians · June 29, 2026 · 2 min
Statements by Renan Santos. 26 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Leadership & Management, Political Governance, Electoral Process.
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Japan has a strategy to thrash not only the Netherlands but also Brazil at the World Cup, and if we don't copy that strategy, we're toast.
Alright, folks, this is another video in the 'Countries at the World Cup' series, and a warning: if we don't start copying Japan, we're going to be embarrassed.
It's quite likely that Brazil will face Japan in the second stage of the World Cup.
They are a disciplined team that has been working very well and defeating European teams.
Japan doesn't necessarily have the greatest footballing talents, but they implemented administrative discipline in their team that made the team, as a whole, perform.
better, to the point that they recently beat Brazil in a friendly.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
A good example of that administrative discipline is the municipal management policy, including mergers of municipalities, that Japan uses in its territory.
It all started with the city of Yubari, a mining town in Japan that declared bankruptcy in 2007.
Because mining activity declined, that city simply went broke and the Japanese government needed to do something.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
What they did was create very specific legislation to monitor and assist those municipalities in getting out of bankruptcy.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
They used lots of performance indicators and very strict evaluation criteria to see whether it was worth that city continuing to exist.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
Cities that couldn't meet those indicators would either be subject to federal intervention or would merge with neighboring cities.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
Do you know anyone proposing this in Brazil?
They established a classification model with a city that was almost at that level of trouble, marking it yellow and red for a city that needed intervention.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
The model ended up forcing municipal administrations to improve their indicators to continue existing as a city or encouraged them to join with nearby municipalities, better solving problems and helping the administration more.
Brazil is losing this war by a landslide.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
The vast majority of our cities are absolutely unsustainable.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
And there is no way for the President of the Republic to avoid this problem.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
After all, much of Brazil's political and economic problems stem precisely from the poor administration of these cities.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
Adopting this Japanese strategy is adopting an approach that will make Brazilian politics better and will also make life much better for people in the interior.
There was a time when Japan called Zico to imitate us in football.
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About: invite parliamentary leaders to join the government team
Today I call Kim Kataguiri to help me govern Brazil.
By copying the right things from the Japanese, I think it's impossible to go wrong.
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About: implement administrative restructuring of municipalities, including mergers
So let's follow their lesson here while we hope to beat them soundly in the second stage of the World Cup.
If you liked this series, follow me here on Instagram, TikTok, etc.
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About: carry one's presidential candidacy to the end
My name is Renan Santos and I am a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic.
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