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A lot of Japanese companies leave piles on the table. One often unnoticed reality of Japanese imports and exports, at least in modern days, is that Japan as a w
by numpad0 2mo ago
A lot of Japanese companies leave piles on the table. One often unnoticed reality of Japanese imports and exports, at least in modern days, is that Japan as a whole has total double standards on those, requiring over the top perfection for imports but exports are almost on take it or leave it basis. Even Nintendo products are at barely acceptable levels if the standards for imports were applied to e.g. en-US editions. It's a miracle that Japanese products have substantial sales volumes and good reputations at all. It's quite unlike Chinese engineering of today.
- coldtea 2mo agoYou make it sound like their exports are subpar. They're excellent.
- numpad0 2mo agoThe oddity I see isn't that quality isn't great, but that developments and company public relations feedback loops are almost open looped in the global scope, only closed in domestic Japanese scope, as if the entire global part were a surplus sale. It somehow works but it's a bit weird, and it looks to me that this open loop setup is causing a lot of tiny but accumulative pains for a lot of Japanese products, which is just ... unfortunate, I guess.
- quickthrowman 2mo agoThere are Japanese companies that focus on quality, Grand Seiko and Credor (Seiko) watches are finished to a high degree by hand. They have used urushi lacquer, hand polishing, hand enameled dials, and all kinds of other high end finishing techniques.