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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega
Hardly.
The Japanese have always been sticklers for quality, probably more so than anybody. However, no nation can transition from being an insular, largely traditional, war-ravaged society to a mass-producer/exporter of high quality goods overnight. Japan accomplished that shift in an incredibly short time and if any American can be credited with helping them, it was professor W. Edwards Deming. |
I believe if you read the article you cited you will find that W. Edwards Deming was working under the direction of Douglas MacArthur.
I am not an American by the way, just have seen it stated more than once that MacArthur was very much for helping the Japanese rebuild, as opposed to further punishing them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan
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