Imaging recource: Of battleships, Korean war and a man from Missouri: How Japan grew to dominate the camera market

    Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Sigma, Sony: You can't help but notice that Japanese brands dominate the global camera business. (At least, so long as you ignore the now-omnipresent smartphone camera, that is.) But why is it that tiny Japan, which ranks 10th worldwide in terms of population and just 61st by land area, punches so far above its weight when it comes to photography gear? In the modern world of digital imaging, doubtless the answer has something to do with the country's high-tech...
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