If I comment on your first point, I think that the west, and I say the west more generally than just Canada, has always misjudged or not had an accurate contemporary appreciation of Japan. You're quite right that after the war there was distrust, obviously, for reasons related to the war, but there was contempt, quite frankly, for Japanese goods and for Japan. That contempt over time, as the Japanese economic machine and miracle started to rev up, turned to admiration for the quality of the things they were doing. That then turned to envy, and during the bubble period it turned to fear.
If you look at the books that were published, Head to Head, and Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, all these things in the eighties and nineties, there was fear of Japan. When you had the bursting of the bubble in Japan, you moved into, for the last two years, dismissal. Every single one of those was wrong at the time and wrong in retrospect. We have to be very careful about our impressions of Japan. I don't just say this as Canadians, I say this as westerners.
On the quality issue, this was not something new for the Japanese. The history of Japan was a history of handicraft and craftsmanship. That's what came back to the fore. If you look at, for example, Japanese china and ceramics, for the last 200 years they have been leading the world, but there was an export—