• doctorcrimson@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Part of the reason for the original enthusiasm is that they were enamored by the country’s recovery post-WWII when they managed to barely obtain permissions from transistor patent holders to manufacture in Japan which led to creation of many of the first consumer transistor radio brands among other electronics manufacturing.

    They were the cheap electronics labour market before China, as China wouldn’t see notable economic improvement until after the 80s.