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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by Gordonjcp on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:43AM (#34805285)
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"?
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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:03PM (#34807933)
>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".

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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by bobthepanda on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:14PM (#34811480)
Japan’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.

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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:00PM (#34810486)
Japan 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.
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Re:Shoichiro Toyoda, who turned Toyota into global automaker... by astrange on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:52PM (#34811154)
A 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.
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