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Japan has a fairly sizeable 130m population. They used to have the world's most advanced tech industry in the 80s/part of the 90s.

Also do not discount Canada. At almost 40m people (comparable to say, Spain), access to US+Mexico market via NAFTA and a historically strong tech sector (Ati, Blackberry etc) you'd expect them to be very strong. However, despite these strengths, today Canada's tech sector pretty much devolved to a nearby location for US companies to temporarily relocate employees that had H1B issues. Canadian-origin tech companies are now basically gone from the big leagues.




In the 80s, the rhetoric was that Japan was going to buy everything. And, if not the most advanced tech industry, a very advanced one.




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