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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/
I’d encourage everyone to read the article. It paints a far more nuanced picture than the headline suggests.
Nuanced yes, but it largely being driven by a Japanese guy who wanted to sell US software and US companies who didn’t want to compete by actually selling compatible hardware is no less damning.
It would have been a completely rigged game for a US company to try and sell and TRON products in the Japanese market.
This is exactly why it was protectionism and could have caught trade sanctions had it been more widely adopted.