The Marshall Plan helped put Europe back together. The Japanese got MacArthur who told them to modernize, stop wearing bathrobes, put real shoes on their feet, and let their women vote.
By 1950 my uncle who was in the import/export business was bringing in cargo by the boatload marked "Made in USA" - as in the town of Usa.* By about 1957 his biggest seller was a die-cast lapel pin with red, clear, and blue "jewels" on a banner over the words "Buy American". Damn Federal Trade Commission started cracking down on imports that were not properly marked which sent him to buying stuff from Taiwan.
The electronics industry went from a laughing stock
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* - the "Made in USA" story is true - it's just that none of the stuff was made in the town of Usa.
Japanese electronics went from Allan Sherman's transistor radio
S: On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me
A: Japanese transistor radio
C: On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me
S: Green polka dot pajamas
C: And a Japanese transistor radio
S: It's a Nakashuma
Listen to it at
http://www.songlyrics.com/allan-sherman/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-lyrics/#fuE5Jsgiqko7UUIO.99 to stuff that still makes the Germans tear out their hair.
All done supposedly by Westernizing them. Hah! They are still one of the most xenophobic countries on earth.
Admiral Perry should have blown Tokyo off the map and let them catch up to the 19th century in a week (or two at the most).