After I moved from the US to Japan for a few years before spending a couple months backpacking around China, I concluded that Japan has the highest-quality cons

After I moved from the US to Japan for a few years before spending a couple months backpacking around China, I concluded that Japan has the highest-quality consumer goods, China had the cheapest goods, and America had the best-value goods. This article is pretty bad, of course. It has no real quantitative measures, just a couple of auto industry quality scandals. That sort of thing happens everywhere, but Takata and VW are just in the news right now.