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Re:Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric... by coldtea on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:09PM (#28269635)
>A short explanation is that they set it up once after WW2 by copying from the US and Europe, but since then the countries they copied from got wise to the IP theft and copycat manufacturing and blocked the transfer of later tech and processes. So Japan is forced to keep up the old thing because it's the only way the know how to run.

LOL, that's not even wrong.

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