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Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2026
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It would have been a completely rigged game for a US company to try and sell and TRON products in the Japanese market.
This is exactly why it was protectionism and could have caught trade sanctions had it been more widely adopted.