Originally Posted by BillyD

A generation (or two) ago Japan was indeed making a bunch of junk. The term "Made In Japan" was synonymous with junk. Over time they turned it around, and as you correctly stated they now make among the finest autos and electronics in the world. BillyD buys Sonys and Toyotas, period.

But it took time. Currently neither Taiwan or China are anywhere near the level of Japan. In fact by all apearances China isn't even trying, they're just trying to unload as much junk on the world as they can possibly get away with.

Lumping Japan into the same boat with China is the height of injustice. It's just wrong!