Truth be told, by eating old money, Japan can still rank among the second-rate countries now, there is no place for it in the first echelon, only China and the United States. And in the second-tier countries, it is also ranked in the middle position after Germany, Britain, France, and with South Korea, Israel, Russia, Sweden and other countries to compete. Germany's automobile industry is stronger than Japan's, electromechanical products are also stronger than Japan's, even Japan's pride in the electronics industry, Germany is not inferior to Japan, only Germany's advanced embodied in the level of industrial plus, Japan's advanced but used in household goods, closer to people's daily lives. And Britain and France are at least fifty years ahead of Japan in the aerospace industry.
Russia's aerospace, aviation, military industry, Japan is likely to never catch up, Israel's arms industry is also Japan out of reach, only in terms of air defense equipment, Japan is afraid that there is no chance to catch up. South Korea's shipbuilding industry has long surpassed Japan, intelligent home appliances to throw down a few streets in Japan, a Samsung win over Japan do not know how many times back and forth, chip manufacturing in the field of Japan will never have a chance. Lastly, the Nordic countries Sweden, the automobile industry is not lost to Japan, Volvo brand is renowned in the world, the Eagle Fighter Japan can not be alone compared with it, Japan relative to Sweden's advantage is probably only in the field of artificial intelligence, right?
But in a decade or so, as the Japanese government's nearly $20 trillion in debt comes due, it will trigger a shortage of social capital flows, which will lead to an extreme contraction of domestic currency, a free-fall decline in social purchasing power, and a shortage of R&D funding for companies to bring their technology levels down further. On the other hand, in the export trade, due to the large reduction in the circulation of the Japanese yen, it will be greatly appreciated, which will result in a great increase in the price of export commodities and a serious contraction of the export trade volume. Japan's economy in this double attack, will inevitably fall into the collapse of the cyclical downturn mode.
Twenty years later, Japan's level of science and technology can only go to the third-rate countries in the team to find a position to go, India can also be beyond it. But for sure, it will be much better than the landlocked African countries.
Japan in the cutting-edge machine tools, robots, environmental protection and energy saving in the world's advanced ranks. In this regard, it is worthwhile for us to learn from a lot of places. But after the founding of the country, our country's science and technology is also advancing rapidly, especially after the reopening of the country, can be said to be rapidly changing.
It's great!
Japan's technological innovation is also very great, seven future areas of Japan has occupied the position of the industry's top three, China's rare earth raw materials, processed by Japan in order to purify the technology, the transformation and upgrading of Japanese industry for the upstream end of the industry, to control a lot of industries, you must have Japanese raw materials in order to produce the dilemma of the situation. As a result of the Plaza Accord, the yen appreciated three times, but also make the Japanese industrialization crisis unprecedentedly high, but the Japanese industrial transformation for the cutting-edge high-tech products of the core technology, dedicated research and development of core technology. In short, the United States, Japan and Europe, Japan is one of the highest Nobel Prize winners, enough to prove that his invention and industry leadership is still consolidated. A lot of technology over Germany.
As we know, from the 1990s, Japan's economy has long been in a stagnant stage, and its GDP level has been surpassed by China. In the eyes of many people, Japan is no longer as strong as we thought. Especially since China has companies like Huawei. But this is by no means the case.
Take high-tech companies as an example, mentioning Chinese technology companies, you will think of Huawei one, and how many well-known Japanese companies? Sony, Toshiba, Sharp, Panasonic, Nikon ...... Each of these names has a world-wide impact. Although Japan has been somewhat obscure in recent years, but from 2000 onwards, 19 years of time Japan has gotten 18 Nobel Prizes, there is no one feel thinly veiled?
Today, we will look at the real strength of Japan together.
In the current position of the world's forefront of science and technology, Japan has never lagged behind. For example, Japan previously launched an asteroid exploration satellite, not only successfully achieved a landing on the asteroid, but also sampling return, what kind of technology level can be realized? We have not even reached the sample return from the moon. A glimpse of the whole world, how much technology Japan is hiding, this is a big mystery at present. But Japan is exaggerated, they are not only good at research, and down-to-earth, these science and technology in Japan was quickly turned into productivity, which has led to the blossoming of high-tech companies in Japan.
In fact, Japan, under the pressure of the United States, must have some reservations about their own technology, because Japan can not challenge the status of the United States in the field of high technology. But Japan, a country that is good at holding back, quickly found a new direction of development, that is, to the field of parts manufacturing and materials, these are quite low-profile direction of development, not with the United States to steal the limelight.
Now Japan, is the world's most important high-end parts suppliers, including the world's top carbon fiber, manufacturing OLED screen deposition system coating machine, never loose nuts, etc., these are Japan can be proud of the world's high-end parts and components, the United States and Europe can only be purchased from Japan. As for the semiconductor field, it is even more exaggerated. Japan in the field of semiconductor almost all the high-end materials to achieve the world's top, such as silicon wafers, photoresists, bonding leads, molding resin, etc., and some even occupy more than 90% of the world's share, if there is no Japan to provide these materials, the whole world's semiconductor development will have to regress for several years.
To do a good job, you have to make good use of the tools, Japan in the field of high-end machine tools, of course, is also the world leader. The so-called high-end machine tools, refers to the production of extremely precise instruments used in machine tools, such as submarine propellers, aviation engines, etc., the advanced degree of machine tools, directly determines the performance of the product. In the field of high-end machine tools, only the United States and Germany can compete with Japan, which is a real strength, not a little bit of GDP can be replaced.
We can not help but ask, what makes Japan mastered such a powerful strength? In my opinion, the core still lies in education.
Japan is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, the investment in education is actually not much, but the level of education in Japan is one of the best in the world, which can be reflected in Japan's bewildering number of Nobel Prize winners and senior engineers. When many people go to Japan for sightseeing, they will think that Japan is a very orderly country and the children are very independent and polite, and this is the result of Japanese education. The Japanese education sector has always been upholding this attitude, that is, we can not arrange for the children's future life, but let them grow up, learn to live, master knowledge.
Truth be told, Japan is the best in the second tier, except for the United States, which is alone in first place! Contrary to mainland China's flamboyant style, Japan tends to give the impression that it is hiding its spear. CNC manufacturing covers the electrical operating system, measurement and feedback systems, mechanical and hydraulic transmission systems are world-class, many domestic equipment, a large number of Japanese equipment. Other areas such as automotive manufacturing, chip development and manufacturing, basic materials applications, medical technology, higher education system are world-class.
Summary:
1. Japan is a manufacturing powerhouse, but at the same time, it is less and less of a scientific powerhouse.
2. Japan is degenerating from a research nation to a pure manufacturing nation.
3. The title of "technological powerhouse" is now more in line with Japan's current situation than the title of "technological superpower".
But Japan still has a number of industries where it excels.
Including alloys, machine tools, automobiles, ships, precision instruments, camera equipment, semiconductor materials have a very high status.
Japan is also the country that can now launch giant rocket technology.
Europe's Germany and the UK also have strong manufacturing industries, but still have a weak presence in many areas, especially rocket technology, which Europe must develop jointly.
(1) Japan, which has been relatively low-profile on the international stage, giving the impression that the developed world is in decline. What has been the position of the Japanese economy in the world over the past 20 years? In 2015, the Chinese Academy of Sciences partner Thomson Reuters in Japan released this year's TOP 100 in Japan:, Japan 40, the United States 35, France 10, Germany 4, Switzerland 3. Japan surpassed the first by 2015. The United States has become the largest innovator. Over the years, Japan has long abandoned the home appliance industry, which is a low-end industry, and is fully committed to the mobile Internet, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, robotics, next-generation genome technology, automated transportation, energy storage technology, and 3D printing. Emerging areas such as next-generation materials technology, unconventional oil and gas exploration, and resource reuse. The past 20 years have been 20 years of successful economic soft landing in Japan, and 20 years of economic transformation, industrial upgrading, and hard work. Japan is in the top three of the world's top 12 regions and is leading the world in some regions. In the future of the world's leading technology innovation center, the United States and Japan will split the world. The order of the United States, Japan and Europe is not an accident, and Japan, the United States and Europe may become the new ranking. Japan is currently in the stage of accumulating electricity, and by the time of the outbreak, Japan's technological reserves in the first few decades will make Japan the world's number one technological power. In terms of technological R&D, Japan tops all four indicators. First, R&D spending accounts for the largest share of global GDP. Second, corporate-led R&D expenditures account for the world's first R&D expenditures, and Japan has 80% of the world's patents on core technologies. The above and third is a patent grant rate of 80%. This will also make Japan's technology in the future will be the only step in the world, in addition to Toyota, Panasonic, Sony, Canon, etc. ...... These familiar international brands, in the international market can be said to be "uncrowned king".
(2) The future will be the era of big data, as its key cloud computing, Japan was named the world's first cloud computing technology and cloud application environment. Alibaba's official introduction of the first and fifth are Japan, Australia, Germany, the United States and France, Brazil is the last, China is the fourth, India is the sixth and Russia is the ninth. Many people are surprised by Tesla's highly automated electric car production line. In fact, Tesla only buys used production lines from Toyota. Today the world's high-tech companies are heavily dependent on Japan. Samsung, Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, etc. would be back at least 10 years without Japan's high precision equipment and parts and solutions. In the case of Apple, more than half of its 1,000 core components come from Japan, while about a quarter of ZTE's cell phones are Japanese. Huawei has long been seen as China's pride and joy, and has been developed into a Japanese masterpiece. Huawei didn't buy Japanese production lines, but rather Japanese people, said Jingbo Xu, president of Asia News. Huawei also set up a research institute in Yokohama, Japan, and recruited 400 Japanese cell phone engineers to help Huawei develop smartphones. OPPO is now seeing Huawei's success and is starting to build an institute in Japan. In addition to cell phones, look at Intel's PQS awards. Only companies with revenues exceeding 80% of cost and product quality can win this award, and Japan is in the majority, far from other countries, even the US. The most visual proof that most people don't see the existence of science and technology is the Nobel Prize for Natural Sciences created by the Nobel Prize for Natural Sciences, created by white people, and as of 2018, Japan. Has won 24, not including 2 Americans and 1 British Japanese. Since entering the 21st century, Japan has had one person win a Nobel Prize almost every year. In 2001, the "50 Years 50 Years Nobel Prize" program was realized. The number of Nobel Prize winners in the first 18 years ranks second in the world after the United States.
(3) As we all know, China has been restricting the export of rare earth resources to Japan because it is an indispensable element for many high technologies, and only two countries, the United States and Japan, can convert rare earth into gold. As for Japan's aging and other demographic crises, this is not a problem in the face of powerful Japanese technology. 50% of the world's robots come from Japan, and Japan's goal for the next 50 years is to replace 10 million workers with labor. Crisis, by then, Japanese robots will be the cheapest labor in the world. Even Liu is not saying that deliveries will be completely replaced by robots in the next 5?8 years. When Japan's technology dominated the world, its net overseas assets were number one in the world. To overcome Japan's lack of resources, the Japanese government reduced taxes on corporations for a long time to encourage capital output. Today, Japan's overseas assets exceed $10 trillion, almost twice Japan's GDP, and the latter has become Japan's strongest potential. . As a pragmatic nation of the 21st century, Japan is nurturing its ambition to strive for the future world's highest point in science and technology. The so-called decline is concealing the image that the country and the nation bring to the world and hiding the real cunning behind it ......
Japan's science and technology is quite developed, has a very strong industrial base, electronics, electrical machinery and many other industries occupy a place and still industry leaders, Japanese companies in the research and development of investment funds and manpower is also very large, and the Japanese people to treat the work is also meticulous!
It should be said that Japan's level of technology is relatively high, in the world's second-class.
To say that the traditional manufacturing industry, Japan should be regarded as the world's forefront, mainly distributed in Europe and the United States of America, the former Soviet Union, Japan, which has a great deal to do with the degree of education of nationals, the availability of labor as well as the degree of national openness to the new concepts and so on, the manufacturing industry is not technically difficult to have a certain number of conditions will be able to complete the rise from the agrarian to the industrialized countries.
The real level of technology, not the traditional sense of precision equipment, machine tools, large-scale equipment, some low-tech goods in the field of civilian goods. Rather, it is the tip of the technological tower on the space, the deep sea and the human body and other unknown areas, the level of science and technology is often the first to be manifested in the military equipment, look at the Wehrmacht and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces holding rifles, simply can not be used to describe the generational difference, as for tanks on the aircraft, not to mention. Excluding the traditional low-end technology of civilian goods, realistically speaking, Japan's technological water is very general, the highest technological development of the country should be attributed to the United States and the former Soviet Union, nowadays Russia is really a bit outdated, Japan's technological level ranked to the world's second-rate level is already a bit lifted.
Europe and the United States of America and Japan's traditional manufacturing industry in the lead is not everyone imagined so much, otherwise the United States will not be repeatedly discarded, as long as the level of education continued to improve the level of participation in the world's industrial division of labor, today's South Korea, technology level on the later on the trend. So the gap between China's manufacturing industry and the old and manufacturing powerhouses is just a matter of time, not something difficult to overcome.
China's ability to master the new energy intelligence and network technology is crucial, as for the traditional technology in the future there will be a lot of countries involved, the red sea is difficult to avoid.