Do you know how many Japanese brands are owned by China nowadays?

Parking here as I wanted to know as well.

Most people would be like buy Japanese since mine still work after x years or xx years. I think the load that everyone is washing is different. I'm still using the washing machine my mom left me before moving out 8 years ago. Not sure how many years she has been using them but probably more than 10 years in total. Rather than brands, how are the built quality of washing machine now compared to back then? Even Japanese cars are getting more and more shitty nowadays, electricals? Most Japanese brands dont even made their own stuffs anymore but outsourced them to someone else.

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Sep 18 2023, 08:20 AM

Anything mechanical, anyone would almost instantly recommend a Japanese brand. Well, our experience with Japanese brands will instantly approved this idea. Reliability over performance.

I have yet to see any proper washing machine reviews that are MY based.

One more thing to add... I too have been watching a lot of tiktok video about washing machine repair. It seems like top load is just a steel case covered spinner. There is almost 0 tech in it. So I do wonder why are these top load costing so much.

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Sep 18 2023, 11:57 AM