Originally Posted by Troopa-R
I think that's utter crap. Any nation is capable of building a well built, reliable, quality car. How Subaru, Hyundai, Cadillac, Buick, and Porsche have been climbing the quality ladder and in more than a few cases beating the Japanese Big 3 is proof of this. That Mazda, Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Suzuki and other Japanese automakers so completely fail to live up to your statement above is another reason it's not true.
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Now, I'm not saying your relative in Japan is wrong, but there are flaws in his argument and sweeping overgeneralizations like that about Japanese and US society are just asking to be picked apart.
It doesn't look like you understood my original statement. I said the SOCIETY demands the perception of "perfect quality". Japanese have a lot of pride in their own stuff, so quality is one of the things they focus on. I did NOT say that the Japanese are the ONLY ones capable of quality.
I can't speak about the others, but Mitsubishi is in big trouble in the eyes of the Japanese in Japan.