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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by mattmanser on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:43AM (#17318368)
The late 80s were all hysteria about Japanese firms taking over America. You can see it in a lot of books and films from the era.

There's a really quite odd film called Rising Sun with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes that has corporate espionage as part of the plot. 1993 release, which was actually just after Japan's economy slowed down.

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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by Spoom on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:03AM (#17319816)
The original Rising Sun book by Michael Crichton is a good read if you didn't know about it. Haven't seen the movie.
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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by hfdgiutdryg on Friday June 15, 2018 @12:42PM (#17321205)
It's a good read, but also full of wild mischaracterizations of Japanese culture.
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Re:Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from... by toyg on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:43AM (#17320576)
The original book was published in 1992, and the writing rate for the author at that point was about two years for each novel, so the idea probably originated around 1990.
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