Kokoda Diggers 'eaten' by Japs

Your experiences are very similar to mine in dealing with those "fine asian allies" of ours. My cousin in law is an American contract worker for a Jap firm (Ogihara Steel) here in Michigan. Her experiences echo yours. Thanks for adding the depth to the discussion that you did.

Be careful, our "fine asian allie's" lovers on this site will flame you for having the termerity to give your perspective. In spite of the Jap lovers, I still stand in humble awe of our now old men who were once young warriors, and who kicked fire from the Jap's butts. Although I had to miss the Hillman, Michigan VJ Day celebration this year, I will be there for future celebration and cheer our Vets.

I don't know exactly how long you've been in Japan. I would assume more than 2-3 years. In reading this thread, I'll submit to your observations on modern-day Japan. If you've posted a vanity on Japan, a sort of 'primer' on what you've gleaned thus far, would you happen to have a link?

Much appreciated.

There may be some truth to this observation. Appearances (at least outward) in Asia (and other places for sure) can be deceiving at times.

I wonder if Jesus Christ loves the 'Japs'?

Naw. Never mind. Couldn't possibly.

Spit it out, it ain't yours.

Drafted then enlilsted 2MAW (thats MARINE Corps to you ,BUDDY.

Don't let your alligator mou....hummingbird a..... .

Uhm, I think you have forgotten that the Lexus is what threw enough of a scare into GM to change from fins and chrome to better styling. GM is the ultimate in copy catting of almost all companies.

They resisted the front wheel drive mini van (a great idea though I hate Chrysler). The entire Cierrra, Corsica, etal line was made and styled off the Camry, Accord success and body styles. Heck all their advertisements were comparing their cars to those cars... and failed miserably at that.

TOYOTA styling has not been a copy cat. The Camry, MR2, Celica lines set the styling trend for their particular segments. Everyone copied off them, including the other Jap car companies.

To top it all off, as one muclear engineer I spoke to said.. "Toyota demands tolerances in their engines that NASA does not demand on much of their equipment." The fact is, back in the early 90's the average Mercedes comes of the line with 230+ defects that must be fixed before the ship the cars. The average Toyota at the time was coming off the line with less than 12.

And we all know Mercedes are much better cars than GM products, so what does that make Toyotas? GM needed Toyota (through NUMI to learn about quality control and manufacturing techniques, Toyota never went to GM and asked them to build a factory or go into a joint venture with them.

Little story about that. GM came to Toyota with the proposal for NUMI. They said they would supply the factory and the management and Toyota could supply the engines, plans and specs, etc. Toyota said that no, GM could build the factory and Toyota would supply the rest, and the MANAGEMENT. GM agreed.

So enjoy your 36k Cadillac but don't try to hold it past 120k miles without expecting to pay an ever increasing fortune like statistics show you probably will. The car will feel little like when you first got it, and ride like something from the Chevy line.

Meanwhile, I will continue to drive my sub 18k Toyota products to well past 200k with oil changes and minor maintenance.... and it will still feel virtually like it did when I got it.

I will admit that GM and the other American car companies were strong inovators in on automotive field... buying purchases. Remember they needed to, and started with rebates and low financing back in the early 80's. Funny, it did not work that well because the Japanese car companies experienced their greatest gains during that period. Those sort of sales bribes are only a recent trend with the Jap companies and usually only are tokens.

That said you missed the point of my post and responded along lines only tangentally related.