How did Japan managed to get the edge on the technology industry in the 80s and 90s?
>>108837770stealing
>>108837770they had no competition.USA? hahahahahahChina? dont make me laugh.
>>108837800you just laughed
>>108837770Access to US and EU markets, full of people with purchasing power. Also they had a thing about adopting everything useful from the West as core part of their culture for centuries. Since they saw for the first time how Chinese got absolutely rekt in war with a tiny European fleet.
>>108837770Hard work, and a lot of it,t.Postdoc in Japan in the 90s.
>>108837770>How did Japan managedhehanyways post more cute japs
>>108837770> in the 80s and 90s?Why aren't they anymore?
>>108839617Labor costs. China took over in the 1990s/2000s and when people caught on that they actually stole the tech for their domestic customers, a lot of companies outsourced again to Taiwan and ate the slightly higher cost