Japan largely missed the PC/mobile/internet wave decades ago.
In retrospect, Japan was in “competition” with the US in memory chips etc.
Microsoft chose Beijing as its APAC research center back in 1998.
Now in 2024, Microsoft chose Japan to invest billion of dollars for AI and cloud.
And China is in “competition” with the US in AI and other tech.
China risks losing behind in AI, mostly as the most powerful chips are not allowed to be sold to China.