How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better

Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by calinet6 on Sunday April 13, 2014 @10:25AM (#7581378)

Much of it actually came from W. Edwards Deming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming), who taught it to the Japanese after World War II. The top prize for quality in Japan carries his name.

He was American; we've forgotten (or never learned), but they took it to an extreme.

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Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by doctorstupid on Sunday April 13, 2014 @01:27PM (#7581991)

I wouldn't say he gave them perfection, but rather that he tought some companies how to achieve the perfection they already desired from mass manufactured goods.

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Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by calinet6 on Sunday April 13, 2014 @03:49PM (#7582678)

Yes, the How was the disconnect. It still is.

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