[quote=sospan]When Japan was rebuilding post WW2 a lot of advisors from the UK ( and US?) were there helping. The Japanese took a lot of the then good guidance and improved/developed it themselves. Bigger companies sub-contracted out to smaller ones with very tight quality and delivery monitoring. Hence the build up of the Japanese quality reputation.
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Iirc that - after the fire of their fabric- "advisors" from Triumph visited some Japanese motor cycle manufacturers ....
The result (quality) can be seen today on many street.
