chuckers <chuckersjp@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 5:40 am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does Japan still manufacture any computer-related technology or, like
> > the US, has most of the high tech stuff been given over to China? This
> > comes from a discussion I had over the weekend about why nobody seems
> > to be able to compete with China, in particular in the manufacturing
> > of flash memory.
> >
> > John W.

> I *think* I remember hearing recently that Japan was in charge of
> making a good number
> of those touch panel thingies found in iPhones and other things.  They
> tend to claim they
> make a lot of little bitty things that are "really important" parts of
> the whole thing.

> The manufacturing plants themselves might be outsourced, of course.

Some of those are made here in the US.

Mike