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After the WWII, MacArthur (sp??) and Co were in there getting the place
back up & running. Some specialist people from America were brought over
to give advice to manufacturers and with their help and guidance things
got moving again.
The results were not bad at first but the industry went about learning
what it was doing wrong and correcting itself through self-monitoring
and awareness and corretions.
They learned and adjusted to become a world beating source of high end
products.
Meanwhile back in Europe and America the same methods that were helping
Japan improve were largely ignored until it became obvious that Japan
was actually passing them by.


I thought it was when Japan ran out of all the low quality American beer
cans the quality improved.

I remember taking a tour of a local TV station around 1970. They mentioned
having a few cameras made in Japan that were beter than the American
cameras. They said as soon as they could they would replace all of them
with the ones from Japan.

I was thinking that in the eairly computer days Japan was selling memory
chips at a loss to put the American companies out of business. Looks like
China may be doing it now to Japan. I have had several of the HTs from
China and they seem to work as well as any of the Icom andYeasues I have had
in the past. Now I can get a whole HT cheeper than the replacement
batteries for the other HTs.