If Japan Can,Why can't we

DURING the 1980s, American industry was struggling to keep pace with that of Japan. At that time Japan was gradually establishing itself as a manufacturing powerhouse. The spectacular rise of Japan’s economy started in fact only in the late 1950s. This was naturally a big surprise to the rest of the world. How come, the nation, which was devastated in the Second World War, could turn around so fast?
   American think tank was little bit worried as slowly but surely Japanese products were being hailed by the Americans. Lloyd Allen Dobyns, a famous reporter who was working with NBC Television at that time, tried to dig into the mystery of Japan’s success. He went to Japan to see things physically. What did he manage to find after extensive research? Surprise! Surprise! The seeds for Japan’s success as a manufacturer of ‘Quality Products’ were planted by none other than an American, William Edwards Deming! Deming’s contribution to Japan’s economic miracle went largely unnoticed in the USA and to the most of the world until a 1980 NBC feature called ‘If Japan can...Why can’t we?’ by Lloyd Allen was published.
   Dr WE Deming was born in 1900 in Sioux City, Iowa. He did his graduation in Electrical Engineering in 1921 from the University of Wyoming. Deming got his MS degree in 1925 from the University of Colorado and in 1928 he was awarded PhD by the famous Yale University. His glamorous career started as a mathematical physicist at the United States Department of Agriculture. Dr Deming worked as a statistical adviser for the United States Census Bureau during the World War II. He was a professor of statistics at New York University’s Graduate School of Business Administration for quite a long period of time – from 1946-1993. He taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business as well. Deming did also work as a consultant for private business.