"Looking back, [due to excessive central planning] Japan's tech sector largely missed out on the software, personal computer and internet revolutions. It never really recovered." The Curse of Bigness, Int'l Edition (forthcoming 2020)
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Also, and this is a quibble that I feel priced into making but it is a pretty important quibble: Substantially everyone who has ever complained about Japan missing software has entrusted their life to software written in Japan within the last 24 hours. (Plus video games.)
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(The incongruity there is a joke but hah hah serious when you think of the amount of e.g. engineers in the US who are in the field as a direct consequence of the Japanese gaming industry.)
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