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Now you imagine, how good do your ideas have to be an American coming to Japan just after World War II, and all the industry leaders of somewhere that was famou
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
Now you imagine, how good do your ideas have to be an American coming to Japan just after World War II, and all the industry leaders of somewhere that was famously insular go "yeah, actually, this is good, this is what we should do, let's get this guy to meet everyone"?
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago>yeah, actually, this is good, this is what we should do, let's get this guy to meet everyone" Or they go "they won, I guess we're obligated to try doing it their way at least once".
- bobthepanda 4y agoJapan’s destruction was extremely total; even if you did not get hit by the nukes, your city was most likely firebombed to the ground. The economy was in shambles, everyone who was still alive was struggling to eat as the logistics chain had totally broken down, etc. In that context it is not really surprising that Japan rejected many of its old institutions and ways.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoJapan already did that in the 19th century when they were shopping around for foreign experts in industry and the military for their modernization. Not a stretch to do it again considering people involved in that process were still alive.
- astrange 4y agoA strange variant of this is Japan's reaction to getting anti-Semitic propaganda from Europe was that these people secretly controlling the world sounded pretty cool and competent, so they tried getting them to immigrate. Though, it didn't really work out.