Japan is widely regarded in the West as a place where futuristic technology meets an incomprehensible culture. When the Japanese rose from the ashes of the 2nd World War and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they rebounded by building one of the world’s great economies from the ground up. Throughout the 20th century, Japan began to export its greatest technological innovations around
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