This is well known history for anyone who tracks this stuff. But the Juran/Deming American influence is vastly overstated IMO. Americans making a fundamental attribution error and the Japanese flattering that conceit. The bigger factor was the receptivity of Japanese culture.
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William Demming brought to Japan from the USA as part of the post-war recovery effort. He got traction in Japan where no one in the US would listen to him about statistical controls.
The Japanese government gives out a Demming award.
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