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It fails to explain why Japanese people who shower literally everyday don't lead innovations...

• b3morales 4y ago
  Don't they? In consumer electronics they certainly did for a good chunk of the past 50-60 years.
• DoingIsLearning 4y ago
  In Brazil two showers a day are pretty common. So access to R&D funding is probably far more relevant for innovation indexes than people's hygiene.
• Existenceblinks 4y ago
  Japanese people are very creative in my perception. I'm in Thailand where if you aren't taking shower 2 times a day, you are considerably "bad hygiene". In winter, at least 1 time in the morning. You will feel "I'm dirty" outside if you don't.
• hbarka 4y ago
  The Global War on Terror (GWOT) revealed remote places where the Toyota Hilux refused to break
• astrange 4y ago
  Japanese people are very innovative, but aren’t motivated enough to create export-oriented products so you don’t get the end results. It mostly seems to come out in “unproductive” areas like unreasonably good amateur twitter artists.
  • nullsense 4y ago
    Hmm... Japan has the most complex economy in the world though?