Umano's pacifism has a uniquely Japanese accent. After the advent of nuclear weapons, he says, military confrontations are a dead end. The obsolete way of military confrontation inevitably leads to social, economic and technological stagnation of the militarized powers. The current militaristic rivalry between America and the USSR weakens both and assures the collapse of both countries in fact leads inevitably to the decline of the entire West By dropping the bomb on Japan, America literally dug its own grave. America is essentially an arrogant society.
Japan is superior to America in human wisdom and it is only natural that Japan win out over America.
Microelectronics is uniquely suited for the Japanese genius, and very soon the technology for manufacturing highly advanced microchips will be dominated by Japan. Japan will also take over the final bastion software within a few years. It has won the final skirmishes but it is on the verge of the precipice. For one thing, IBM Japan is a Japanese company staffed almost completely by Japanese. After the brutal treatment which IBM gave Japan in the IBM-Hitachi incident, it is unimaginable that any Japanese university graduate of superior quality would ever work for IBM Japan.