737, RE: Okuma VS or Nemesis Casting Reels Posted by SLM, Wed Apr-20-05 06:51 PM
>Made in China vs. made in Japan, I would trust the Japanese >over a third world country
China is now Japan's biggest trade partner. There are sooo many Japanese products that are manufactured in China today--it's much less expensive for them to contract with overseas (China, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea) factories instead of producing them at home. A large number of so-called "Japanese" brand lures (Daiwa, Shimano, Evergreen, etc) are actually made in China.
Only Shimano's higher end products are still made in Japan. Everything else is farmed out to the emerging industrial nations...
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