TriX wrote:
Yep, it's all about quality control. Before WW2, products from Japan had a reputation for poor quality, but following the war, they embraced Deming's quality philosophy, and now, Japan's quality control is world class (Toyota/Lexus, Nikon, Canon, Fuji - I could go on...). China is all over the place - some good, some bad, and hard to know which is which.