> I don't recall the Japanese being accused of poor quality. It was a different time: https://www.nytimes.com/1952/01/13/archives/japanese-machinetool-industry

> I don't recall the Japanese being accused of poor quality. It was a different time: https://www.nytimes.com/1952/01/13/archives/japanese-machinetool-industry-lags-lack-of-export-business-is-laid.html https://www.nytimes.com/1952/01/13/archives/japanese-machine... "The Japanese flair for imitating, but not equaling, the manufactures of occidental nations has caught up with her machine-tool industry, ..." (1952) First it was imitating, but not equaling, then it was imitating with equal quality but a little cheaper, and a few generations later nobody remembers that "Made in Japan" ever meant anything but high quality.