Computers:

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Nevertheless, it is true that Japan seems to have far fewer hackers than it ought to, given the average levels of education and wealth and the degree of Internet penetration and the fact that the country is otherwise very positive about technology. And it’s not hard to connect this to identifiable features of Japanese culture.

Internet Explorer browser share[1] by country seems to correlate with that "respect for authority" ("save face") conformance of northeast Asian culture.

Code:

71% South Korea
60% China
52% Japan
44% Taiwan
40% Israel
40% U.S.A.
39% Hong Kong
37% Netherlands
35% Australia
35% Belgium
35% Iran
33% Mexico
32% Peru
31% Switzerland
30% U.K.
29% Sweden
27% Italy
26% France
26% Somalia
25% Thailand
24% Europe
22% Germany
20% Brazil
20% South America
20% Argentina
19% Finland
19% Africa
19% Colombia
17% Iceland
17% India
14% Cuba
12% Viet Nam
10% Cambodia
10% Madagascar
10% Nepal
 7% Bangladesh
 7% Mongolia
 6% Philippines*
 3% Indonesia

Closer to here (i.e. lower) is more use of open source.
* I code on the top of tallest mountain here.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/