JAPANESE SPARE PARTS PROBLEM

US engineers who work for Japanese companies like C Itoh & Co complain that it’s almost impossible to get spare parts because the Japanese just don’t bother to make them: their attitude is that by the time the thing breaks down, the technology has already been superseded.

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