B5+Japanese+Technologies&Electronics

Japanese Technologies and Electronics　日本の　科学技術と  家電

__Technological Advances and Researches__ Japan is one of the leading nations in the field of scientific research. technology, machinery, and medical research. They continue to lead on in the technology of 21st century by supporting researches from both governments and companies and have the world 3rd largest budget for research and development at over 130 billion in US dollars, and over 677,000 researchers. Japan has recieved the most sceince Nobel Prizes in Asia.

__Japanese Researchers that won the Nobel Prize__ Japanese researchers have won several Nobel Prizes. Hideki Yukawa, who went to Kyoto University, was awarded the prize for physics in 1949. Sin-Itiro Tomonaga followed in 1965. Solid-state physicist Leo Esaki, that went to University of Tokyo, received the prize in 1973. Kenichi Fukui of Kyoto University shared the 1981 chemistry prize, and Susumu Tonegawa, also went to 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). Masatoshi Koshiba (University of Tokyo) and Koichi Tanaka (Tohoku University) won in physics and chemistry, respectively, in 2002. Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Masukawa, and Yoichiro Nambu who is an American citizen when awarded, shared the physics prize and Osamu Shimomura also won the chemistry prize in 2008.

__Transportation ( Unsou ) and Robotics__ Japan leads the world in robotics, possessing more than half 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 with world famous companies like Toyota and Honda designing and manufaturing variety of vehicles from cars, construction vehicles, ATVs, engines and more. Japan is also considered to have one of the most advanced train system. The most famous are the Shinkansen and maglev trains. In 2003, the maglev MLX01 reached 581 km/h. This is the fastest record achieved by a maglev as well as a fastest train, slightly beating France's TGV attempt in 2007 (by about 7 km/h).

__Aeronotics ( Outer Space research )__ 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 has developed a series of rockets, the latest and the most powerful rocket is H-IIB. H-IIA/B rockets can carry an 8-ton load.

__Home Appliances__ Japan is also advanced in lots of household convenience technologies such as laundry machines that also dries clothes and air conditioner that also disinfects and filters the air. There is also a food garbage disposer which allows They develope innovative technologies to compensate for their small living space and other factors such as wet and rainy summer. (Japanese usually hang-dry their clothes and has to watch out for rains on summer days).

__Cellphones__ Japanese cellphones have many interesting features exclusive to Japan in order to appeal to many needs of Japanese consumers. many of the Japanese cell phone provides: viewing Live TV, video telephony (You can see each other's face as you talk), fingerprint or face recognition system for security instead of passwords, GPS navigation system, crime prevention buzzer system that automatically reports to police station, and watching nico nico douga videos (Equivalent to YouTube in Japan) Japanese cell phone users, especially teens, also like texting and majority of expressions of their conversation is expressed by "Emoji"s which are little pictographs. Meanwhile, adults use the built in transaction chip in cellphones to purchase goods and pay for transportation fees like credit cards. You can even pay for your drinks from bending machine with a cellphone.

__Akihabara__ (秋葉原  ) Akihabara, also known as Akihabara Denki GaI (Akihabara electric town) is the place to go in Japan when you are looking for rare or interesting gadgets. They have wide varieties of stores selling many different electronic goods such as cellphones or computer and also anime and manga related items. Some stores even provide parts and tools to build your own robot!

__Virtual Reality helmet__ Toshiba is developing this VR helmet which gives the wearer a 360 degrees view in a virtual world. They are trying to make it smaller. media type="youtube" key="KPrHKicA5oA" height="344" width="425" __This is a Humanoid Robot__ It is Programed to walk, talk, look like, and have the same movements as humans.



__The Sharp W61SH Cell Phone__ It is a cell phone with a rotating screen so you can watch TV on it. It has an integrated antena, so you get TV on it for free! It has a contrast ratio of 2000:1. That is better than most big flat screen TVs!! Sugoi!!!!!!!! ^^