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Wild to learn this is the same company selling MSG (mono sodium glutamate) and build up film

- https://www.ajinomoto.com/innovation/our_innovation/buildupf...

- https://www.ajinomoto.com/brands/aji-no-moto

Not really shocking considering how Japan likes conglomerates.

Hyundai makes cars and military weapons and probably thousands of other things that aren’t even related to each other, don’t know if they still make computers.

Hyundai is Korean.

To nitpick: Hyundai are Korean but the Korean Chaebols are in many ways even more dominant than Japanese Keiretsu (fmr. Zaibatsu) are. Mitsubishi would be a good Japanese example.

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