I agree with a lot of what you said, but the Japanese are not as creative as you think they are. I lived in Japan for a few months and studied Japanese language and culture extensively, and I can say that they are good at making things better and reliably, but have zero creativity, because they are still fundamentally Asian, and while we were programmed with thousands of years of Christianity for example, they were pumped with Chinese Confucianism for thousands of years as well, where deference to elders and the group at large, rote learning and having qualifications were and still are front and centre. The Chinese are like this as well, but they are only as good as and a product of their manpower and lack the "island mentality" and any refinement that the Japanese developed. But I respect the Japanese very much, as in my mind, they are the only non-European country that figured things out, and managed to develop to a very high standard, in their own authentic Japanese way.