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> Most of Japanese innovation is actually from US companies that they took over.

Just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions_an...

Hopefully you'll realize that that is one of the more uninformed takes you've had, and then question the other things you think are true.

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I clicked on that list. I went to pocket calculator, and it said the first one was made in the United States.

You should look into the sheer amount of industrial espionage that Japan did in the United States and Soviet Union post WW2. It is mind boggling. We started legally transferring and licensing technology to them so that at least we would make some money back.

Finding one example that confirms your pre-existing biases is not the way to attain wisdom.

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