Japan, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up

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▶ 3:10 Shane Parrish Five years earlier, Japan had taken the whole Korean peninsula 3 times in the scene
▶ 21:50 Shane Parrish After the war ended and Korea was liberated from Japan in August of 1945, Chung went back into the auto repair business. 2 times in the scene
▶ 24:31 Shane Parrish Korea was free from Japan.
▶ 47:00 Shane Parrish He was aware at times that Korea had to compete with Japan and had to compete with every other industrializing nature.
▶ 1:01:51 Shane Parrish Honda had tried to save money by buying secondhand equipment, including Japanese trucks leftover from the Second World War.
▶ 1:11:57 Shane Parrish The Ministry of Construction had brought in one of Japan's most prestigious engineering firms, 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:27:45 Shane Parrish Under the plan, Hyundai would build Ford-designed engines that would be mounted on chassis made in Australia with transmissions made in Japan. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:37:30 Shane Parrish He went to the Japanese. 5 times in the scene
▶ 2:00:48 Shane Parrish Korea would probably lose the bid to Japan, which would be embarrassing, or Korea would somehow win the bid and then fail to deliver on the games, which would be much worse. 6 times in the scene
▶ 2:14:02 Shane Parrish When Chung was born in nineteen-fifteen, Korea was a Japanese colony.

▶ 12:57 Shane Parrish Japanese cameras had recently blown apart the German-dominated camera market. 4 times in the scene
▶ 14:39 Shane Parrish He arrives in Japan in November of 1962. 2 times in the scene
▶ 23:40 Shane Parrish Knight has to pay for shoes from Japan months before he can sell them in America.
▶ 26:13 Shane Parrish And with help from a Japanese trading company called Nishu,
▶ 28:42 Shane Parrish He built it to reduce his dependence on Japanese manufacturers, and it was a smart long-term move, but it was also a clear violation of his agreement with Nishu.

▶ 49:37 Shane Parrish It's Japanese. 10 times in the scene
▶ 1:06:23 Shane Parrish At an age when most start to wind down, Jimmy flew to Japan and discovered his entire business philosophy was wrong.

▶ 39:01 Shane Parrish Originally developed as a custom chip for Japanese calculator manufacturer, the 4004 was essentially a computer on a chip containing 2300 transistors and performing functions that previously required entire cabinets of electronics. 2 times in the scene
▶ 54:54 Shane Parrish This perpetual vigilance would prove crucial to Intel's salvation when Japanese manufacturers later attacked the company's core business.
▶ 56:07 Shane Parrish For Intel in the late 19 eighties, this 10 X force came in the form of Japanese memory chip manufacturers. 3 times in the scene

▶ 35:58 Shane Parrish When American TV manufacturers still dominated the US market, Singleton anticipated the coming Japanese competition and exited the business entirely.

▶ 42:03 Shane Parrish With the launch of the G-Force in Japan, Dyson had created 5127 prototypes, a number that has become mythical in innovation circles.
▶ 46:09 Shane Parrish Unable to find an existing manufacturer in the UK willing to produce this vacuum, Dyson turned to Japan, where a licensing deal with a company called Apex allowed the GeForce cleaner to be marketed as a luxury item, selling for the… 4 times in the scene
▶ 1:02:52 Shane Parrish Unable to interest existing manufacturers in his invention, he was forced to commercialize it himself, first through licensing in Japan, and later through direct manufacturing and sales. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:05:05 Shane Parrish He built 5127 prototypes over five years to launch the G-Force in Japan, and then spent another decade perfecting the DC-Zero-One for the world.

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