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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I agree with Tenchu on this.
Many Japanese brands are well known in Japan to produce their actual products outside of the country.
What matters, really, is the time invested in quality checks. Japanese brands tend to be more in depth and demanding when it comes to the quality of things they bring in for assembly.
For example - the factory will run it`s internal quality check and those pieces which pass are then checked by Japanese staff at the factory. They weed out even more problem pieces, and then send the packaged goods on to Japan where they are put through another quality check. If the factory has more than a set number of faulty pieces (usually 1% per shipment), they lose their lucrative contract... Something no one wants.
Any location is capable of producing extremely high quality goods - IF the top goes to the trouble of checking, double checking, and making sure that the factory and workers take responsibility. If they just order from some factory and don`t do a multi-layered quality check at every stage... No matter where they produce there are going to be serious problems.
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Japanese manufactured products are also well known outside of Japan for the quality. You will often see in Australia on a Sharp AQUOS TV or a SUBARU motor vehicle the words "Fully Imported from Japan" which is a real selling point due to the high quality reputation of Japanese manufactured products.
I'm scrutinizing the agreement factor on weeding out the products as you put it from Japan, to Japan and outside of Japan as that would end up causing the product to be far to expensive.
The whole idea of building the associated brand factory outside of Japan in cheaper parts of Asia is to get the costs down. For example, four Thai workers for the same price as one Japanese.
Exceptions to this are factories in China that for example manufacture barnd name bags. The factories are owned by Mr. Wong, NIKE, ADIDAS approach Mr. Wong to manufacture the product for them, whilst the brand name chooses the thread, zippers, etc. You could walk in and say you would like 20,000 Nyorin Bags and they would make them. Now that's an idea
You say any location is capable of producing
extremely high quality goods, I can't agree as it's just been so well proven not to be the case which usually groups the countries into smaller manufacturing possibilities dictating which products and the likes.