Are Toyota Problems Unique and Due to Quality Control?
How extensive are the problems within the Japanese manufacturing sector?
Cars, washing machines, shoes and sushi bars …
Japan needs a major rethink because money alone won’t cure her ills, or help it to bail out from self-destruction.
You can understand why the Chinese goods sold in Japan don’t last more than about 15 minutes or two “throws,” but Japan will pay a dear price for its quality-control indiscretions.
There’s an up-market sushi restaurant in town, which the kids like to go to with their grandma once a week, but it’s boycotted by the moderator.
I stopped going there, or eating the sushi bought there 3 and a half years ago, after a piece of packaging foam mixed with the topping on the sushi lodged in my throat and made me to almost throw up. I sent back the sushi with a strongly worded message.
The restaurant apologized and made a refunded. It was their excuse that made me boycott their sushi. The manager said it was difficult to mix the particular topping and not have pieces of foam accidentally buried in it every now and then.
Imagine if Toyoto told its customers it would be difficult to manufacture cars whose accelerator pedals didn’t stick.
I vowed never to eat their sushi again, and haven’t since. The average cost of a meal for three adults and two kids previously came to about ¥7,500 ($85).
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