They looked pretty rough so several men in the office paid a call on the salesman's office in Tokyo.
It was explained that the castings were made in the Japanese village of Usa.
Usa, it was discovered, had little more than a seaweed drying industry...
Usa, Japan! I remember that story!
I’d heard of that place before, which for a time allowed sharp Japanese to stamp stuff as “made in USA,” but never knew if it was more than a fictional anecdote.