I doubt it would've won anyway. There were loads of OS's at that time, most not having the issue of the US government intervening, and none of them won either.

It's funny because I trust the Japanese government even less than the American government.

Interesting how many TRON Association members were also adoptees of the MSX standard, which had similar (but less ambitious) goals to be "the" world computer interoperability standard. i wonder if that was why they jumped off the project at the first sign of trouble, thinking it was a good thing they didn't keep all of their eggs in one basket. NEC likely ended up outperforming them both with the PC-98 anyway