stepwilk, I am not sure about Japan, but there is a wonderful short story by Eduardo Galeano, an Uruguayan writer:
Originally Posted by (c) Eduardo Galeano
Alienation
Back in my salad days, I was a bank clerk.
Among the customers, I recall a shirt manufacturer. The manager of the bank would renew his loans purely out of pity. The poor shirtmaker was constantly on the brink of bankruptcy. His shirts were not bad, but no-one bought them.
One night, the shirtmaker was visited by an angel. When he woke that morning he had seen the light. He sprang out of bed.
The first thing he did was to change the name of his enterprise to Uruguay Sociedad Anónima ('Uruguay Company Limited'), a patriotic name whose initials are: USA. The second thing he did was to sew labels onto the collars of his shirts that said, with complete honesty: Made in USA. The third thing he did was to sell shirts like hotcakes. And the fourth was to pay off his debts and make tons of money.