You make another great point. I bet many US citizens are unaware of the profound impact Deming and others had on the quality process improvement capabilities of the Japanese manufactures.
That's the sad irony. Japan used American innovation and engineering to beat American companies that weren't in a big hurry to adopt some of the same measures.
Actually, it was general MacArthur who brought Dr. Deming to Japan. Japanese products were soooo bad after the war that MacArthur felt he had to do something to improve it, and he brought Dr. Deming over to fix the problems.