Are the Japanese really so technologically advanced?

[black_dust]

The internet is so fast over there, the website comes up before you have even thought about what you want to go on.

 

[terry78]

Try as we might, this is where they got us beat.

 

[kainedamo]

Before anyone hits the report button or flames me, I'm telling you right now that this is a genuine question that's been on my mind for quite some time.

In the movie Transformers when the main character (Shia Lebeauf) sees Bumblebee transform, he makes a remark saying that the robot is probably from Japan. This clearly states that people assume that technologically advanced weaponry/devices are automatically from Japan. What I want to know is, where exactly does this come from? Besides a few phones, tiny televisions, and that ASIMO robot, where is some solid evidence of this "superior technology"?

Your mistake was to take a comment in the Transformers movie seriously.

 

[IRON_Lad]

I heard their cell phnes have video interface. And I can't wait to go to Japan (december)

 

[kainedamo]

We've had that for a few years too.

 

[Danalys]

Young Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.

 

[SFII]

well obviously they have "cloning" technology because they all look the same.



...just kidding!

i <3 sushi.

 

[terry78]

I like how they discovered a new place to put your cell phone. Ingenious.


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[SFII]

Hmm... Doritos, bag of cookies, trailmix, or used panties?

why can't we have that dilemna?!

 

[Manic]

I like how they discovered a new place to put your cell phone. Ingenious.


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[Metal Spidey]

Try as we might, this is where they got us beat.

I don't get it. Not all Japanese women are good looking.

Your mistake was to take a comment in the Transformers movie seriously.

But I hear comments like that all the time, I was just naming something that everyone knew about.

Hmm... Doritos, bag of cookies, trailmix, or used panties?

why can't we have that dilemna?!

America is almost as pedophilic as Japan is, so I don't see why we don't have one yet.

 

[knowsbleed]

Its not a matter of them being superior. Japanese are more efficient in their technology. Their applications for technology are put to use 100% of the time in everything they do. They are so overcrowded there that they utilize every single aspect of their lives like they utilize their land. Their technology compliments/enhances their busy/overcrowded lifestyles. Their lives are run by technology that dictates where they go, how they go about doing it and when they need to do what they need to do. Their transportation system is almost NEVER late. When it IS late... they are given a note to provide to their superiors as an excuse that they were late. That is how rare their transportation system is late. There is not very much crime there. And in a city like Tokyo where they are so overcrowded... that is amazing. Can Manhattan say the same?

Sum=Japanese are probably the most technologically efficient people in the world.

 

[chamber-music]

From Wikipedia

Technologically Japan is well known for its automotive and electronics industries throughout the world, and Japanese electronic products account for a large share in the world market, compared to a majority of other countries and also their automotive industries.

Since the country did not participate in the space race amongst countries like the Soviet Union and the United States, Japan's technological development was geared more toward commercial products. Japan boasts many large international corporate conglomerates such as Fuji (which developed the nation's first electronic computer, FUJIC, in 1956) and Sony.

Japan is one of the leading nations in the fields of scientific research, technology, machinery and medical research with the world's third largest budget for research and development at $130 billion USD, and over 677,000 researchers.

Some of Japan's more important technological contributions are found in the fields of electronics, machinery, robotics, optics, chemicals, semiconductors and metals. Japan leads the world in robotics, possessing more than half (402,200 of 742,500) of the world's industrial robots used for manufacturing. It also produced QRIO, ASIMO, and Aibo. Japan is also home to six of the world's fifteen largest automobile manufacturers and seven of the world's twenty largest semiconductor sales leaders.
Japan has also made headway into aerospace research and space exploration. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) conducts space and planetary research, aviation research, and development of rockets and satellites. It also built the Japanese Experiment Module, which is slated to be launched and added to the International Space Station during Space Shuttle assembly flights in 2007 and 2008.

Japanese researchers have won several Nobel Prizes. Hideki Yukawa, educated at Kyoto University, was awarded the prize for physics in 1949. Sin-Itiro Tomonaga followed in 1965. Solid-state physicist Leo Esaki, educated at the University of Tokyo, received the prize in 1973. Kenichi Fukui of Kyoto University shared the 1981 chemistry prize, and Susumu Tonegawa, also educated at Kyoto University, became Japan's first (and, as of 2007, only) laureate in physiology or medicine in 1987. Japanese chemists took prizes in 2000 and 2001: first Hideki Shirakawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and then Ryoji Noyori (Kyoto University). Physicist Masatoshi Koshiba (University of Tokyo) and chemist Koichi Tanaka (Tohoku University) are the nation's latest winners, both in 2002.