Why are Japanese and Chinese so good in designing electronic gadgets?

i cant understand where do these guys get these brains. i mean i look under my cell cover or behind my computer on my calci or on my wrist watch in my PDA ,I POd it all says either made in China or Japan or Taiwan

My question is that what has governments in these countries done to achieve and create a benchmark in their countries achievements?

Answer:

The Japanese are characterized as perfectionists and not innovators. The Japanese have a 1,000 year history of copying and perfecting what they like, and they have always had an admiration for complicated miniturization. You will find that after WWII the Japanese went out and purchased quite a few patterns from all over the world and then marketed them brilliantly. The Japanese and the Chinese find or buy old inventions from Europe and the USA and then remake them better: they are killing us with quality. Example: a 1930 German sextant which went for about $1,500 is made better today by the Chinese and goes for $50.00! The Japanese in the 1950s %26 60s bought patterns from RCA or other American electronic firms and just improved the design and marketed them: the Japanese did not invent the television or DVD but they just made them better and cheaper.

The Japanese admiration for complication and miniturization, and also the Chinese, can be seen in Japanese Noh masks and in Chinese wooden puzzles. Japanese wooden Noh masks are beautiful creations that have many sophisticated working parts. Chinese puzzles are renown for their complication.