Whenever Timothy C. Collins visits Japan—which these days is often—he's a whirlwind of activity. Meetings with Cabinet ministers and bigwigs of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Get-togethers with the high and mighty of Japan Inc. Number-crunching meetings with prospective partners at Japanese companies.rnCollins wants to be the best-connected gaijin there, an insider in a system where insider status counts for everything. He is betting almost $2.5 billion of his investors' money that the nonstop networking will—improbably—pay off big. You see, to the founder and chief executive of private equity fund Rip-plewood Holdings llc, Japan is the ultimate restructuring play, "Japan has one of the most productive industrial infrastructures going," says Collins. "It has the best engineers in the world, the best products, the best processes." In other words, Japan is a buy.
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机译：每当提摩西·科林斯（Timothy C. Collins）来日本访问时（如今通常是这样），他都会充满旋风。与内阁部长和执政的自民党的重要人物会面。与日本公司的强大和强大的成员聚会。与日本公司的潜在合作伙伴进行开创性的会议。rnCollins希望成为那里联系最紧密的gaijin，这是系统内部人员，内部人员地位至关重要。他押注投资者资金中的近25亿美元，认为不间断的网络将（不大可能）获得丰厚的回报。对私人股本基金Rip-plewood Holdings llc的创始人和首席执行官来说，日本是最终的重组公司，“日本拥有目前生产力最高的工业基础设施之一，”柯林斯说。 “它拥有世界上最好的工程师，最好的产品，最好的工艺。”换句话说，日本是买入的。
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