Historically, since the late 1940's, Japanese business folks didn't focus on the quarter results as much as they did the 5-20-20 or more year end results, they planned for the long term just as Totota's 50 year plan to become #1 in global auto manufacturing.
So extremely wrong here...from 1945 until the mid-50's the only real global industry was US...Why? Because the US had the only industrialized infrastructure that hadn't been bombed to krap at the end of WW2 and until the mid 50's (we'll give Canada a little credit)...What you are saying is the same as saying the Marshall Plan had nothing to do with the economic and industrialized capacity of Europe today.
Japan is where it is today, and Europe too, because of US aid and influence, not in spite of it.....Gotta be careful, don't want to stray into controversy.
Why are the Japanese ahead? Because you're dealing with a people and culture that did not tolerate a lack of success or any failure. Historically failure meant loss of face and forfeit of ones life...Either at the hands of your leader or by your own. They still do not tolerate failure and you can't change 10,000 years (as they count) of culture and history.
after all many countries were at that time in an advanced industrial position, compared to Japan, and today they are lagging behind them
Japan is where it is today, and Europe too, because of US aid and influence, not in spite of it.....Gotta be careful, don't want to stray into controversy.
Why are the Japanese ahead? Because you're dealing with a people and culture that did not tolerate a lack of success or any failure. Historically failure meant loss of face and forfeit of ones life...Either at the hands of your leader or by your own. They still do not tolerate failure and you can't change 10,000 years (as they count) of culture and history.