How did Japan come to be?

Answer 1

A refugee Chinese nobleman of the Wu Clan started it in 175 BC. His name was Hong Yi, but the Emishi knew him as Honinigi.

2nd (Real) Answer:

The first people who came to Japan did so about 17,000 years ago. The Ainu people were a stoneage group that populated all of Japan. Later, people from Siberia (Including some that were of the same group as our American Indians), Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, South China, Tibet, and the Philippines as early as the Ice Age. Due to the Ice Age, the ocean was so low that Japan was connected to Siberia, Korea, China, Taiwan and the Philippines. The various tribes crossed the land connections at this time. These people drove the Ainu out of the southern islands of Japan into the northern island, where about 25,000 of them still live.

Answer 2

Before World War 2, Japanese products were junk. At the beginning of World War 2, Japanese Fighter Airplanes (Zeroes) were superior to American Planes. During World War 2, American Fighter Pilots discovered that Japanese fighter aircraft would fall apart in really tight maneuvers. From then on, the skies belonged to American Fighters. The Japanese realized they made junk. The junk had contributed to their loss. After the war, Japan decided to concentrate on quality, quality, quality. While New American Cars had to be returned to the dealer several times for repairs, Japanese cars did not. While American cars did not have all the screws and bolts tightened and all the welds properly made, Japanese cars had them all in place and done right. As a result, the Japanese automobile companies (and other companies) did not need to pay dealers for warranty work. It is far more expensive to have a mechanic go back and fix one problem than it is to have it taken care of on an assembly line. By doing things right the first time, the Japanese saved thousands on warranty work. As a result, they could sell the same car for less money than any other similar car and their factories made tremendous profits in the process.

Of course the same thing happened with other products. They honored their warranties as well. That is how they found out about problems. They also fixed them as fast as possible. They like to fix problems upstream. American companies tend to ignore problems and not fix them at the first opportunity. When people hear of a problem, sales die. The company still refuses to fix the problem. The idiots!

Japan made more money and then invested it. That made it a world power.