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      Japanese soldiers described World War II as a "typhoon of steel."  It certainly felt that way to Akio Morita, a studious young engineer from a family of prosperous sake merchants.  Morita only barely avoided the front lines by getting assigned to a Japanese navy engineering lab.  But the typhoon of steel crashed through Morita's homeland, too, as American B-29 Superfortress bombers pummeled Japan's cities, destroying much of Tokyo and other urban centers.  Adding to the devastation, an American blockade created widespread hunger and drove the country towards desperate measures.  Morita's brothers were being trained as kamikaze pilots when the war ended.

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology