In Brazil two showers a day are pretty common.

So access to R&D funding is probably far more relevant for innovation indexes than people's hygiene.

Japanese people are very creative in my perception. I'm in Thailand where if you aren't taking shower 2 times a day, you are considerably "bad hygiene". In winter, at least 1 time in the morning. You will feel "I'm dirty" outside if you don't.

Don't they? In consumer electronics they certainly did for a good chunk of the past 50-60 years.

Japanese people are very innovative, but aren’t motivated enough to create export-oriented products so you don’t get the end results. It mostly seems to come out in “unproductive” areas like unreasonably good amateur twitter artists.

Hmm... Japan has the most complex economy in the world though?

The Global War on Terror (GWOT) revealed remote places where the Toyota Hilux refused to break