A large amount of animation was offshored from Japan for cost and worker regulation reasoms. Now that the yen is weaker it’s less profitable to do this.
groundling20XX
joined 3 years ago
Japan in japan sabotages cars. The real issue is that Japan went deep on hydrogen power combined with the large increase in electric prices after 3/11 any future of electric car died for the Japanese domestic market. Toyota in particular put its money in hydrogen buses, cars and other things which lead to a galaoagos tech like half of the rest of the crap in japan. Theres also some general resistance to electric over the past decade to create a parallel technology stack to china which fizzled out.
This is also exactly the way someone who speaks japanese natively would talk in english as it’s a direct translation.
You can already buy those for a few hundred yen. They just are really niche since normally microwaves are available or hot water is.