The attempt by Japan to cultivate ties with Jewish immigrants was not wildly successful, and didn’t bring in much in the way of foreign capital. In part because Japan didn’t have a large or well-established Jewish community to begin with. Always harder to be the first few folk of a specific minority in a place! In part because many Western Jews (who would have been the portion of the world’s Jewish community most likely to emigrate and most likely to have any sort of industrial capital or expertise to contribute) were ideologically aligned with liberal and left-wing movements rather than the… far-right imperialism of Japan at the time. And in part because… well, Japan was allied with Nazi fucking Germany. XD
Japan’s dominance in the auto market didn’t come about until the 60s or 70s. I’m not real sure as to the history there, I just know the vague post-war timeline of it.
It was a legacy of American reconstruction. We sent industrial engineers to Japan to test their theories after they’d proved useful during the wartime manufacturing, but American companies weren’t interested in continuing using them. This resulted in combining Japanese ideas that ultimately led to the Japanese style of manufacturing such as lean
Japanese cars, especially in the early days were really differentiated by being efficient and small (Japanese cultural and practical desires contrasted to what American consumers were believed at the time to want) and cheap and well built (this is where the industrial engineering thrived)
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The attempt by Japan to cultivate ties with Jewish immigrants was not wildly successful, and didn’t bring in much in the way of foreign capital. In part because Japan didn’t have a large or well-established Jewish community to begin with. Always harder to be the first few folk of a specific minority in a place! In part because many Western Jews (who would have been the portion of the world’s Jewish community most likely to emigrate and most likely to have any sort of industrial capital or expertise to contribute) were ideologically aligned with liberal and left-wing movements rather than the… far-right imperialism of Japan at the time. And in part because… well, Japan was allied with Nazi fucking Germany. XD
Japan’s dominance in the auto market didn’t come about until the 60s or 70s. I’m not real sure as to the history there, I just know the vague post-war timeline of it.
It was a legacy of American reconstruction. We sent industrial engineers to Japan to test their theories after they’d proved useful during the wartime manufacturing, but American companies weren’t interested in continuing using them. This resulted in combining Japanese ideas that ultimately led to the Japanese style of manufacturing such as lean
Japanese cars, especially in the early days were really differentiated by being efficient and small (Japanese cultural and practical desires contrasted to what American consumers were believed at the time to want) and cheap and well built (this is where the industrial engineering thrived)
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