Originally Posted by
ilyaz
Don't mean to highjack the thread, but is it true that back in the 50s and 60s when Japanese products first came to the US market they were considered "cheap junk"?
It's absolutely true ilyaz. We used to find it humorous when traveling from state to state, stopping in at a souvenir shop in the middle of Montana and seeing all the cheap little trinkets on the shelves, each having a label underneath that said "Made in Japan". Even in the Indian shops it was like that, a feathered head dress or woven beads, etc. all made in Japan. There was a great song that mentioned it, titled "Cherokee People", of which I'm a part, that said "all the beads we'd made by hand, are nowadays made in Japan"
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