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Why national security..? If there's a world war and all of a sudden Japan doesn't have computers? (genuinely curious)
by nkkollaw 10y ago
Why national security..? If there's a world war and all of a sudden Japan doesn't have computers? (genuinely curious)
- bitexploder 10y agoPerhaps they meant economic security.
- bigtimeidiot 10y ago>If there's a world war and all of a sudden Japan doesn't have computers? Pretty much. If you're at war you need that materials to feed the war machine, which includes the metal to build the plane as well as the computers that go in the cockpit (and let's not forget the knowledge to build it all).
- nkkollaw 10y agoGot it. Kind of makes sense.
- eigenvalue 10y agoThey just don't want the Chinese to get DRAM fab technology and then flood the market with cheap parts.
- abalashov 10y agoI don't think the issue is actually national security as much as preserving Japan's relatively closed economic system of interlocking corporate ownership / keiretsu.
- abalashov 10y agoWhy am I being down-voted? That's the standard bargain Japan has with the US. It goes back to the Cold War. I'm not passing judgment; it's just a known matter of fact that their economy is rather closed to outside investment, especially controlling interests.