this is a thread ABOUT JAPAN holy shit

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after its defeat in world war 2, Japan was content to take foreign inventions--the transistor, the laser, the videotape--and convert them into products that it could market around the world. Japan acquired much of its base of Western technology, most of it American, perfectly legally through licensing, careful study of sceintific papers and patents, and imitation. But when the US wasn't willing to share, some Japanese companies simply copied with little regard for patents and other intellectual property rights

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IBM vs Fujitsu over computer software, Honeywell vs Minolta over automatic focusing, Corning Glass vs Sumitomo Electric over fiber optics, these are only some of the best-publicized complaints that Japan has stolen American technology. As in the broader case of equal access to each other's domestic markets, building a two-way street isn't easy. For one thing, much US basic research is done at universities or government centers--and so is generally in the public domain; because Japanese universities have neglected basic research, much of it is done by corporations and so is proprietary.

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Asians copying others work? That's like being shocked that niggers steal.

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Companies that may have viewed Japanese imitation as an annoying form of flattery are now aggressively trying to protect their hard-earned knowledge from the Japanese.Corning Glass persuaded a federal judge that Sumitomo Electric stole its patent for making fiber-optic cable, a discovery central to the development of all-purpose, high-capacity telecommunications. The judge ruled that Sumitomo had blatantly copied Corning's design for adding selected impurities to glass fiber so it will carry light efficiently.

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Honeywell accused Minolta of infringing Honeywell's patents on automatic focusing technology. Honeywell demonstrated its technology for several Japanese companies and sold licenses to a few. Minolta attended but did not purchase a license. In two years, Minolta's Maxxum and Alpha autofocus cameras became worldwide best-sellers and revived a moribund business.

IBM and Fujitsu settled a copyright dispute that began back in 1982. IBM accused Fujitsu of copying the software that controls its mainframe computers. After taking their case to the American Arbitration Association, they gave Fujitsu tightly controlled access to IBM's OS software for 5 to 10 years at a stiff price. In turn IBM has the right to examine Fujitsu's software for violations.

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The underlying reason that the Japanese need to tap American brainpower is to make up for the great weakness of their industrial juggernaut: the lack of basic research and creativity. Susumu Tonegawa, A Japanese-born researcher at MIT is highly critical of the absence of commitment to basic research in Japan. He contends that scientific concepts are essentially Western inventions and that Japanese culture remains a major block to true creativity. Scientific thinking, he argues, is a product of individualism, and "in Japan individualism has never been of personal value." After the war Japan failed to invest in basic research because it was too expensive and time consuming/ That tradition has continued. "The Japanese buy patents rather than developing their own technology, which requires enormous investment," says Tonegawa.

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tl;dr: America makes shit, Japan improves it and outsells.

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[Anonymous No.]

This is a thread about Japan.

It is as boring as hell.

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>tl;dr: America makes shit, Japan copies it and gets sued.