The hype behind "Made In Japan"

Originally Posted by BanningZ

While I understand the analogies, and don't get me wrong I am NOT a nationalist, I look at this statement with a sour taste in my mouth.

Farmers here in the Northwest are hard working people who take pride in the quality of their work. In Washington and Oregon we grow delicious apples and it is hard to find better elsewhere.

I don't think it is necessarily the ethic of the farmer or blue collar worker, but the rampant disregard for small business in a corporately controlled country. The same thing happened to Japan in the 80s, and they still have not recovered. We are completing a similar cycle. This is why you pay $5.00 for an apple compared to $1.09 a pound.



I would like to hope that our product quality would increase with time to a point where the "American standard" would return. Unfortunately the US has 304,000,000 million people over 3,537441 square mile area, compared to Japan with its 127,288,416 over 145840 square miles. Less people with less land means that there is much more control, and people be come painstakingly careful with how that land is used.

It doesn't help that we import so much now either. We luckily still have active agriculture and a few other sectors that supply our own country, but more and more we become importers and turn towards a service based industry.

Just my



Edit: Also with that being said, these tuner parts are for the Japanese tuning scene (Nissan, Honda, Toyota, etc..). You are not as likely to see American manufacturers making parts for Japanese made cars. This is not to say that there are not amazing US manufactures that create parts and products for Japanese cars. I would argue that the parts manufacturing scene for USDM vehicles in Japan is much small than that of JDM vehicles, and that many of those comparable parts made by US companies are of great quality.

Originally Posted by molamann

I don't think he's necessarily saying which apple are better(correct me if I'm wrong but about >70% of apples in Japan are imported from the US anyways) but the difference in how apples are packaged and presented in Japan. I mean they're literally individually wrapped and nearly every apple are in perfect condition.

Originally Posted by molamann

I don't think he's necessarily saying which apple are better(correct me if I'm wrong but about >70% of apples in Japan are imported from the US anyways) but the difference in how apples are packaged and presented in Japan. I mean they're literally individually wrapped and nearly every apple are in perfect condition.

Originally Posted by BanningZ

You just shot his analogy into the ground.

I still here what you were saying though.