[Bonemaker]

Japanese are the Germans of Asia...brilliant engineers, scientists, precision manufacturing, medicine, chemists etc.

[dfwgator]

Japanese are the Germans of Asia.

LOL, thinking of the Three Axis Powers: Germany, Italy and Japan....One of these things is not like the others......

[Tailback]

And perveted as all get out. In a good way for both.

[fr_freak]

Japanese are the Germans of Asia...brilliant engineers, scientists, precision manufacturing, medicine, chemists etc.

And wound as equally tight, ready to spring out like a demented jack-in-the-box once the tension is too great, God bless 'em.

[cgbg]

When the Japanese see a threat, they _act_, _together_.

They don’t make up wacko conspiracy theories or cobble together phony data to convince themselves there is no threat.

They act on the precautionary principle—the threat is real until there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Many in the modern US, on the other hand, fight for their right to partee...