• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Tbh that’s the 80s and why these companies all exist today, Japanese economy was kinda peerless at the time.

    You’re also forgetting the likes of Toshiba, Toyota & Fujitsu, who are also still very dominant in their respective areas.

    Fujitsu is the one least attached to the consumer market, but what people don’t realise is a surprisingly large number of government supercomputer systems across the world run on Fujitsu systems. They don’t really have any competitors in that space any more.

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 days ago

      I didn’t really forget them; I just have no personal experience with those companies. I can personally attest to the power gen from Mistubishi and Hitachi being 2024 (and contracted to 2030), seeking the production of specifically nuclear power generation and the parts required for such.

      You are entirely correct, though. If Japan really wanted to they could, in fact, take over many major fabrication sectors up to and including the aforementioned car market. China is now, imo, the bottleneck for most countries.