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user-inactivated  ·  2574 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Honda faces long haul to recoup business jet costs

Well, to be fair, Japanese businesses can be really hard to understand sometimes. Sometimes they seem like one big company making tons of different products, like General Electric here in America, only more extreme. Is Mitsubishi primarily a manufacturing company or primarily a finance company? Other times they seem like a ton of smaller companies that are allied really formally through sharing ownerships and such, like Toyota have a major chunk of Fuji Heavy Industries' pie (which gave us the 86/BRZ, so it's totally cool).

The point I was really trying to make though, is that I think part of the reason a lot of these bigger companies have such a variety of products is because they embrace the idea of trying new things, figuring out what works, and doubling down on it. If history went differently, maybe we'd be hearing now about how Honda's jets are dominating the market and maybe Asimo, like a simple piston ring was back then, will be the start of Honda's new future.