Japan's supremacy in the electronics world was at one point so great that even Western companies started branding their stuff with Japanese-sounding names. Some Asian firms were less subtle—hence, the PolyStation, Panosoanic TVs, and Misushita kettles in this gallery (site's in Japanese, but there's enough English to navigate). Misushita in Japanese means "I made a mistake", incidentally, and we'd have to agree.
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