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- Will Japans automated industry wipe out the need for humans in the work place. 'TV Eye investigates the changing face of the Japanese worker.
First Shown: 11/02/1982
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The most sophisticated people in the world - by far.
Made in japan equals top quality. That's a fact.
I'm happy the imperial japan got shut down..
amazing country yet they're also the least productive of the G7, despite the longer work hours lol
@@missingno88 Sadly, Japan was the first one to enter the 2000s...and the last of the developed countries YET to leave the 2000s.
orang japan & orang german adalah orang terpilih
I'm so glad I lived in Japan during this era. It was an amazing time. I wish I had appreciated even more than I did.
where are you from ?
How Japan now and you?
14 hour days in the factory. great times
you had those cute girls in sailor jackets back then, that inspired modern cartoons .. ;)
To be fair that's how most people feel about their past😊
I have a 1987 Nissan Sunny...its built better and more reliable than anything else I ever owned. Same for my old hifi components. Basically if it says made in Japan, its made to a very high standard and better than anything else from anywhere else..
Even better than made in Germany?
@@MrWalker1000 I’m sure that no country is better at making Baumkuchen than Germany!!😆🤣😆🤣
Yeah I reckon the Japanese stuffs better than the German stuff
I so agree I've had mainly Suzuki cars all lasted well and never hardly gave any trouble the Toyota avensis I had was bulletproof it broke down once in nearly 3 years even the it was a seized handbrake cable the aa guy just disconnected it happy days.
@@MrWalker1000 German stuff is not the best. That is very old fashioned thnking!!
It's weird to think that those kids are 40+ years old and probably some of them have passed away. And this video is available to us at any time on this platform. Mindblowing.
majority of adults here are surely baby boomers born in the late 1940s
Right? Unbelievable we have this technology in our generation, but,
Imagine what the future holds...?
Maybe we’ll be able to pick a time and a location in the past and visit using some kind of virtual reality set up?
Who knows?
And how some companies were at such an advanced stage of automation compared to now...
they are busy paying boomers debt.
@@199724 Todays automation is in a whole different dimension then the best automation back then.
Amazing that the Mazak factory still exists today and is even more automated. Incredible.
Japan still takes the initiative in science and technology. Don't forget Hayabusa(はやぶさ), a robotic spacecraft which landed on an asteroid and came back successfully to the Earth with extremely precious samples for the first time in human history! In addition, we Japanese are very proud of Fugaku(富岳), which is still the fastest supercomputer in the world(as of March, 2021). The supercomputer helps us learn how airborne droplets containing the novel coronavirus spread.
You are native ?
@@missplainjane3905 Yeah, I'm a Japanese who was born in Japan.
@@MurphyColeman
You seem fluent in english which is rare for japanese people.
@@missplainjane3905 Thank you for your heartwarming comment!!😆I've subscribed to English-language newspapers for many years. I'll do my utmost to improve my English proficiency and visit English-speaking countries someday. I strongly hope that the pandemic will end ASAP!!
@@missplainjane3905 1) I definitely do.
2) technology: 9
For example, Toyota Motor Corporation is trying desperately to develop hydrogen-powered vehicles for the future of the company (and the world). As you know, hydrogen produces nothing but water when burning. Hydrogen-powered vehicles are ultimately environment-friendly!!
architecture: 9
Tunnels, bridges and wooden structures are cases in point.
The Seikan Tunnel between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido is the world's longest undersea tunnel. The Kurushima Kaikyo Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge when completed in1999. Part of Horyuji Temple in Nara Prefecture is the world's oldest wooden structure.
food: 8
Japanese traditional cuisine (washoku/和食) was designated as a UNESCO intangible world heritage in 2013. However, some cuisines are a little salty.
landscape:10
I love Japanese beautiful scenery, because I am a Japan native!!
standard of living and quality of life:9
In 2000, Japan's insurance system was praised as being the best medical insurance system in the world by the World Health Organization (WHO).
There are convenience stores and vending machines all over Japan.
3) Kind but a little humble. I want all Japanese people to be more proud of themselves.
4) vulnerability:
Unfortunately Japan is surrounded by authoritarian countries such as Russia and China, and constantly attacked by them. What is worse, there are a variety of natural disasters like earthquakes, typhoons and tsunami.
long history:
It is said that Japan was founded on February 11, the year 660 BC.
unique writing system:
Japanese people use Kanji characters(漢字), Hiragana(ひらがな), Katakana(カタカナ) and the Roman alphabet(ABCabc).
「私はCZcamsであなたと出会えてすごくハッピーです。」
（I feel super happy I came across you on CZcams.）
Japanese people always have an honor commitment when it comes to important works. I appreciate it
Sath Pichvorak
"Japanese people always have an honor commitment when it comes to important works. I appreciate it"
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Situation is changing.
The employers are betraying the workers.
There's no life time employment.
Many workers are becoming temp, workers without benefit and job security.
What about Germans?
1985: plaza accord
1986: economic bubble
1991: beginning of the lost decades
Japan's lost decade was created by China/Korea influenced Japanese left wing movement. Same movement in 1960's UK made by Labour government of Soviet influence.
@@Tubingenstrnice conspiracy theory 🥴🤯😵💫
@@Tubingenstr
Bullshit.
They were so much ahead of the west back then...crazy
@Maçã Verde no they are behind now
@@MrWalker1000 Now their more advanced than any country in the world. they live in the 25 fifth century just wait when the Olympics start
@@parisstromatias637 they are not that advanced. other asian countries are even beating them
@@MrWalker1000 Japan doesnt like to flex its achievements like other countries such as China. I visited Japan a year ago and jesus christ, especially Tokyo and Osaka, they are way ahead in many ways still. They just don't export those technologies just yet. Its just that, they technology is driven by efficiency. Everything is just so efficient and I come from Australia and i thought we had it pretty good lol. A country can be really efficient without having a large GDP. Japan is such a country. If you think china or the US is advanced cause of its GDP, you are clearly going around it the wrong way.
@@giantblob7075 okay maybe not but what about the advancements of Korea and Taiwan? I think weebs tend to overblown how superior Japanese culture is. What makes Osaka and Tokyo so ahead? I have friends who have been to both and say Seoul, Korea has beat Japan in technology. Gdp does matter it's a reflection of the economy and Japan has fallen behind western countries like Australia or even Germany.
Watching this in 2022 ! How it felt 40 years ago!! Japan was a booming industrial power the only Asian star who could challenge the west...
Now Asia haa already overtaken west
Use this video as a example of how NOT to manage an economy… Japan has failed and has been failing since 1991. That Nissan CEO laughing was NOT good. He was blissfully unaware of anything bad ever happening to Nissan. So unaware in fact that he led them to bankruptcy by the late 90s. They were bought out by Renault in 2000 and have been in decline ever since. That professor was right, Japan was essentially digging it’s own grave in the 80s. By now, there are some Japanese car factories that have almost been completely automated. Japan has inadvertently made itself redundant.
I agree with a lot of these points. I wouldn't necessarily say that Japan was building its own grave in 82' but definitely by the 85' Plaza Accord and the building of the economic bubble by the late 80's caused the economic collapse. Unfortunately as well, foreign investments are not as prevalent as they were back then due to population and GDP declines but also Japan having a unique economic structure it's hard to see them bounce back from such a decline unless drastic changes are made.
Listening to the narrator, you understand why Britan's industry was already doomed in 1982.
Dead inside
I thought the narrator was good. It was sympathetic and positive.
Maçã Verde Marxists are pro-industry and against outsourcing. Britain’s industry was destroyed by the policies and ideology of Margaret Thatcher, a right-wing conservative capitalist who shut down coal mines, factories, and destroyed the economy with privatization. Now Britain has no industry, and its private rail is among the LEAST efficient & reliable in the world. Britain’s GDP composition by sector in 2019 is 79.2% service, 20.2% industry, and 0.7% agriculture.
China-a Marxist-Leninist socialist country-has a massive industrial base that continues to expand and improve under socialist economic planning. For example, China produces ~950,000,000 tons of steel/year, while the USA produces only ~85,000,000. The closest country to China is India, which produces ~110,000,000 tons/year. Look at other industrial metrics, and they are all the same. China’s GDP composition by sector in 2019 is 6.4% agriculture, 30% industry (vs. 20.2% for Britain), and only 63% service (vs. 79.2% for Britain). I got my GDP composition statistics from the CIA World Factbook, steel production stats are from the respective economic bureaus of China, India, and the USA.
Socialism = economic progress, industry, & wealth for all citizens.
Capitalism = inefficiency, outsourcing, and economic stagnation.
I could go on, but hopefully you see.
@@victoriamitchell2233 Will you blithering idiots ever shut up?
@@victoriamitchell2233that 's how it is.
Gods...those little kids are about my age now. I love Japan and I wish them only the best!
I heard this quote many years ago "the factory of the future will have two employees, a human and a dog. The human is there to keep the dog company and the dog is there to ensure the human doesn't touch the equipment."
This is so interesting. Those workers at the Nissan factory seen in 11:30 didn't see it coming that in ten years time, that is around 1992, the company will start to go down hill and by the end of 1990s, on the verge of collapse, only to be rescued by Renault.
The world and people have changed since, which meant that the Japanese car industry in general is starting to follow the footsteps of British Leyland. Quality issues reflected in increased numbers of vehicle recalls, extensive platform sharing followed by the badge engineering and tech mergers.
Yep Renault's have always been poor quality cars apart from the diesel engines which are reliable mainly 1.5 and 1.9 dci.
All the car manufacturers since the 80s had to deal with emissions reductions and fuel economy increases thanks to gov't mandates, which increased cost, all while having to find ways to reduce expenses to generate higher profits for investors.
While Toyota and Honda are high quality vehicles today, they're not nearly as good in quality as they were in the 80s and 90s.
The Korean automakers (Hyundai/Kia) becoming more popular due to higher quality (tho still below that of Toyota and Honda) and lower cost has added a lot of competition and at a time when real wages for Western economies has fallen a cheaper car sells better, even if it doesn't last as long.
In general, the entire world is regressing.
Japan was very strong economicly then, they simply had the upper hand in manufacturing!
Japanese workers are very disciplined, i like.
The big reason why Japan's post-war industry grew so rapidly was the government's implementation of "accelerated depreciation" as well as post-war reconstruction. Even Khrushchev was flabbergasted over America's geriatric manufacturing infrastructure. i.e. 100 plus hundred year old machines and buildings still in operation. The engineer at 24:00 reminds me of the 'The Twilight Zone' episode "The Brain Center at Whipples".
It seemed that the atom bomb and the war and after being rebuilt made the country better 🇯🇵🚅🏯🗻🗾
@@ginocavazos2153 exactly. Japan may have lost the battle but won the war. Same with Germany. Russia and China got the shaft from Uncle Sam.
20:59 I miss the good old days…
Matsushita's electrical circuits are all designed based on the golden ratio. Because of it's f*ckin beautiful.
I've found Matsushita / National / Panasonic products to always be of very high quality. Very well designed, reliable and always use quality components. I especially like their older products (1960s-1980s) because often, EVERY electronic component in the device is made by them, which is something you would never see in a product today.
Japan has always been been a society that others should try to mimic. The Japanese person has honour, dignity, dedication and is hard working and industrious. The west lost the ability to teach honour and dignity resulting in a culture of selfish autonotoms
Germany has a better model. Japan has a lot of social negatives.
You mean suicidal workaholics living in rabbit hatches?
@@tomservo5007 Not to mention low birth rate and aging population.
oh no, westerner wants to believe japan is an overall better place. South Korea and Japan are probably the least desirable developed countries in the world. But sure, if richer = better than i'd like to see you live there. Leave your North American/European home then.
@@ciprianpopa1503 thats asia
Bushido mentality in Japan is alive and well in lifestyle, business and financial world back then and even today.
Japanese are the most honorable people on this planet. Respect from Kazakhstan
......you need to get out more.
I think german in first place ,japan second .
Too bad many workers were thrown on the scrapheap during the lost decade when japanese companies started to stagnate and fail
Funnily enough, Japan now has a problem with not having *enough* workers. Even between the time that this was made and now, the highest unemployment rate was 6%, far lower than what the US and European countries saw in their crises. Clearly higher specialization and education is something to strive for, not fear.
Have babies ffs
@fullmetaljaco it's debt held by Japanese themselfs. It's not debt owed to another country so its different
@fullmetaljaco so if Japan is the largest creditor nation and has been for a long time now since the 80s shouldn't it be rated like Germany as a triple AAA economy? Germany seems to have many issues of its own despite being rated so highly.
@fullmetaljaco that's true but it could be maybe Japan has been stagnating and hence the rating. But Japan is also the largest creditor nation so that also doesn't make any sense. Japans gdp per capita is not as high as it should be considering how advanced it looks.
The problem in Japan now is they didn't have enough children 30-40 years ago and they've got too many over 60 that the younger generations are being tasked with supporting the more numerous old folks.
Japan had it rough in the 90s when the market crashed and where the Japanese stock markets are today, they're only 200% higher than what they were in 1982.
Imagine if the Dow in the US today was only 3000 points, not the 30,000 it is currently.
The lack of asset growth crippled Japan, it couldn't grow a consumer economy like the US has and that also made it more difficult for them to have more kids, which meant it couldn't grow later on.
Most hilarious thing ever - the robot joining in the exercise!
watching in december 2019, and still auto plants in japan are full of living flesh workers
@Sir Solid Snail what are you saying? Aren't robots going to take over when they get advanced
It was so amazing era for Japan, these were technologically 25-30 years ahead of the rest of the world, even the US looked so far behind them
Call this a hindsight but the reporter failed to realize that with technological innovations and development, new type of business coming suit and new kind of employment is being created. Take for example, the car industry. As cars getting much smarter and safer, there are much more components that needed to be outsourced to other companies to keep the cost down. These companies hires their own talents, which in turn reduce overall unemployment. The car factory hires less people but the industry, as a whole hires more.
It seems like the word "synergy" is a totally foreign concept to western industries, where everything is zero-sum and compromises is being misunderstood as synergy
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The report is Bryan Gould who later beacme a British MP and unsucessfully ran for the leadership of the Labour party. The issue of not understanding jobs created with new technology is very common.
Well and there are much less japanese later
True. In the west you see a lot of hate for technology in western countries but In Japan they don't seem to hate it.
I don't know what this comment is referring to since it is too generalistic but if you're referring to the creation of robots to automate the job of multiple workers then you're dead wrong. The creation of such robots might create a team of outsourced specialists to work on it in the short term but in the long term multiple jobs are lost to robots in the automotive industry because of this. Look at Japan's car industry now, mostly automation. The people who benefit are specialists who make the robots, CEOs/Companies, and maintenance workers for the robots.
Very nice video :)
History always repeats itself.
1980s is the golden age of city pop!
Golden age? Must be dreaming
@@Ichigo-cp9wz ?
ultra goku ?
You mean golden times for Japan
City Pop is just genre that Japanese had in 80s and personally I listen to these songs because they are beatiful
是的，而且不止80，还有60 70
A lot of focus here by the presenter on the "impact" of the robots on the British workforce and the fear of the power the unions have who through their own ignorance and self preservation, stifled innovation and dragged British industry backwards, a situation we have never recovered from.
Even the robots will have to warm up before the start working
This is a great channel. It is so great to research history by video not by book.
When I was a kid it's so amazing and inspiring ....
this document was released in 1982 and if you look at the current china and US trade war/tech war/ currency war, it is exactly the same as what US did to Japan
Yeah USA struggle against Japan in 1980's and now they repeat again with China
Yea but the difference is that japan did not have nukes and was considered an ally of America and japan was democratic china actually wants to fight America with weapons and they are a dictatorship so the leaders can just play dirty.
"computer allergy " .... in the early 80s !
Bit of an abrupt end but very interesting, can we have more full programmes please.
15:45
In 2019, It's typical implicit way to abuse workers until they resign company or dive into train.
@11.43 " Japanese car workers earn more money than British car workers."
That's understandable
20:53 , Millennials don't believe me when I tell them that, since the 50s, we've been told AI is just around the corner -- nice to see the same for robots , at least since the early 80s.
“Around the corner” means nothing.
your predictions needs to be accurate. The 80s robot wasn’t even using AI. They were pre programmed.
Funny what became of the "miracle." Today in Japan wages are about the same as when this video was made. Unemployment is still 2%, but inflation is no longer in single digits, it is actually a bit negative. Much of what made Japan great at the time of this video was keeping its market closed to foreign competition, and manipulating the value of the yen. This gave Japan a captive market for its industries, as Japanese consumers could not afford imported goods. Though the documentary emphasizes that Japan is a large exporter, in truth domestic consumption made up some 60% of what Japanese companies made in those days.
But, keeping its economy closed, and the LDP (the ruling party) using heavy agricultural tariffs to fund heavy subsidies to farmers in order to stay in power kept prices in Japan very high. In case you don't know, in Japan people do not get one vote per person in an election. Rural voters get up to 3.3 votes per person, and by buying off the rural vote with subsidies, the LDP has managed to control the country for most of the last 70 years.
The result of all this is that food and other goods are very expensive in Japan, and Japanese have among the lowest disposable incomes of all developed nations. The result of this is that the Japanese can no longer afford to bear and raise children, and the population is now falling by hundreds of thousands per year, and will decline by around one-third by the middle of the century.
Worse yet, the government continues to spend ever more each year, as though an economy with a striking population can still grow. Government debt today is more than 250% of GPD, and growing. The negative inflation rate aggravates the debt, because it adds value to it, making it even more difficult for the government to pay it down. At the moment, 26% of all government expenditures go toward debt servicing costs, yet the debt continues to pile up.
Sounds very same situation like in Finland (North EU).
I'm Japanese.
What you said is exactly!
I want Japanese to hear your analysis.
who are you?
why you know well?
@@aaiai8230 I have lived in Japan for many years. I own a small company in Tokyo, and before that I worked in the financial sector in Otemachi. I have met and talked with a large number of Japanese businessmen, company executives, and politicians, and have learned a lot from them.
I love living in Japan, and have done pretty well here, but the situation is not good. Though most Japanese have a good understanding of economics, and the concept of value, the government does not. Value is the return one gets from labor; nature and the market assign a natural value to all things. The government disregards the concept of value, thinking that policy, via manipulating interest rates and currency supply, they can control it or defy it. And despite a 100% record of failure from this process, they keep doing the same thing.
Since 1995, when the consumption tax was first implemented, Japan has more or less been in a constant state of recession. 18 bouts of fiscal stimulus were enacted, none succeeded. Instead of learning from this perpetual failure, the government throws good money after bad, the BOJ is now printing money and using it to prop up the Japanese stock market. As of today, the BOJ is the majority shareholder in many of Japan's top companies, which is absurd.
An economy has a natural value, when the market is distorted, and the value manipulated artificially, it eventually swings back to its natural value, but must first swing past the point of balance to the negative, which wipes off the artificial value which was added. We see this in action whenever there is recession or stock market crash.
Japan has been battling with deflation for many years now. Why is the economy deflationary? Because prices are too high. Why are prices too high? Because taxes, tariffs, price fixing, and other practices make things more expensive than they should be. When prices are too high, people buy less. When people buy less, supply exceeds demand, when this happens, prices must go down. But instead of letting prices fall, the government continues to enact policies to keep prices high, such as increasing the consumption tax.
Increasing the consumption tax causes people to buy less, because with prices already too high, the tax makes them even more expensive. So less goods are sold, companies make less money, therefore they cannot afford to earn a profit or raise wages. Since they don't earn a profit, they cannot expand, since they cannot raise wages, people can even less afford to buy more expensive things. A 3% increase in the tax results in more than a 3% decline in consumption, profits, private income, and spending, the end result is the government earns less tax revenue than before the tax was implemented, especially when you consider the vast amounts deficit spent in order to "stimulate" the economy more than negates wha tax revenue is gained by the increase.
It is insanity, and eventually the house of cards which has taken the place of Japan's once strong economy is going to get knocked down.
@@jpguthrie6669 japam is the world's second largest surplus country with a huge foreign exchange reserve. They seem to be doing fine. They just need an increase in wages.
Why do the Japanese have such low disposable income if they are so rich
Potencia tecnológica hasta éstos días, cultura y gentes muy admirables, adelante Japón.
この頃まで？日本は今も前身しています。
Japan is the first developed country in Asia. the peak of its economy was 1980
First develepod asia country is Babylon ( now iraq)...then chinese dynasty which invented paper, gun powder, printing, tootbrush etc
Abbasyd ummayid Ming dynasty..was the developed Asian countries..wayyy before the europaen
But they has bigger economy than 1980's
@@Reformamposss That's the day too far. Dude. At that time has no economic indicator. We start in the modern century of 20th century
@@Reformamposss the modern world started after ww2
In terms of well built and reliability products, the Japanese are ahead of times.
It makes me pull my hair out how western society loves to showcase the high standards and success of other cultures but actively neglects to uphold any sort of standards that are at odds with their own lazy culture.
37:30 The guy either predicted or jinxed Japan lol. The Lost Decade prevented Japan from reaching the No.1 Spot in 2000.
"Exchanging visiting cards, and awkward and time-consuming process." And that is not all. The process of being met at the door, of being escorted to the office, the card exchange, the pleasantries, and the eventual business discussion. Then there is the drinks and meal after leaving the office, where more business is discussed, then the part where the client leaves, which is another awkward an time consuming process. Then you have to get down to the business itself, in which the lower and middle company people have no say, so everything must be kicked up the chain of command where the higher-ups will yay or nay, and send it back down to the lower and middle people. If it's a yay, another meeting is made, the paperwork is laid out, and sealed, which is an incredibly awkward and time-consuming process, and why, in 2019, Japan's businesses and economy are in decline. In an era where quick decisions and efficiency are life and death matters, Japan is slow to adapt.
3:59 looks like the robot also doing exercise too
“Do you see the gap with the west closing and catching up? “ no "I see the gap increasing with the west"
I like using Japanese made products. Their products were ambassadors of their country. Same goes to Made in German products. Some of the hand tools I use were made in W. Germany, looks worn out but still works perfectly fine. Quality
Thanks japan from Morocco
I own two1977 Suzuki motorcycles, a GT380B & also a GT750A.:
They’re as perfect now as when they left the Hamamatsu factory.
I had a Yamaha RD250A - loved it!
I had an lc rd Yamaha and two Kawasaki 2 strokes all reliable and so fast.😁
A maintained Japanese machine will last forever.
4:13, 4:23, 13:20, 13:26 The person speaking English and Japanese answers without any problem but in Japanese.
It’s called editing. They can take video and cut it down to just the really important parts and then polish it and present it to the masses.
I appreciative of this sharing. I am in love with this far away Beauty.❤🎉
I was expecting a Benny Hill episode to start when I saw the intro
Me too 😁
I was expecting Danger Mouse or Rumpole.
21:00 We had to do this at the start of every shift when I worked at Amazon UK.
LOL Amazon is trash, i would NEVER be singing for Amazon, who do they think they are?? A Church????????? Low paid Agency workers with no employee rights and timed toilet breaks. Amazon can fuck off lol
Those kids must be in their early 40’s now. Japan 🇯🇵 were way ahead of U.K. back then.
Had watched this 90s documentary.
Japanese firms come over in the 90s to show the British car manufacturers, how its done. The British replied, why are you helping us 🤔.
They said “we’re already 10 years ahead you”. They had production techniques for lean manufacturing, such as Kaizen, Kan Ban, JIT.
Thatcherism, destroyed the manufacturing industries.
Good observation on the Japanese system in manufacturing plants. Excuse me but it seems I couldn't get the reason why Japan helped the British. To be able to buy their robots from Japan?
Terra Gaia i think maybe they wanted to form a joint venture, You seen HONDA and Rover partner up in the 90s.
Very nice 👍 great job and great people thank you everyone
It’s amazing the parallels to China today.
nah its different. chinese put no honor in their work
@@fritzkuhne2055 what do you mean with "put no honor"
@@fritzkuhne2055 says the one who 100% use a made in laptop/mobile.
I bet atleast 50% of the things at your house is made in China.
So simply what I mean is I remember the early 80’s and the fear was the Japanese would own america and the world. The parallel is China today.
@@optimisticfuture6808 watch the documentary "princes of the yen". then you know what happened after japan was too successfull for its own good
Documentary about Japan and the first guy they talk to is making sexdolls.😆
No; those dolls are created to support some hero team of five colours who always appears with a roll call. X)
Eso se llama prioridades :v
sexdolls before Hentai was mainstream... Japan always ahead with social priorities.
This is the 80's, hentai is already a thing sold in VHS and Betamax
Watching this on 1st Jan 2020
Japan back then look so similar now, their economic growth really shrunk
They're still an incredibly rich country, which you discover the moment you arrive there.
Japan is a great industrious nation, we can learn a lot from them. I hope the UK can collaborate and trade with the UK.
Bryan Gould later returned to his native New Zealand and is now a board member of TVNZ
This documentary, says more about the British than the Japanese
How?
The next decade was a "lost decade" for japanese. Today japan has the highest debt to gdp ratio n that is above 200 percent. Growth fuelled by financialization (borrowings) a neo-liberal strategy has resulted in accruing of trillions of dollars in debt in countries all over the world.
One thing I will say about Japan is that they make the best cars in the world, Toyotas rock!
Ha! Hondas are better!
@@seanhudsonforester
Yes and no, Honda do make some great cars, but overall Toyotas are more reliable.
37 years on..
japan in the 80s, full dreams hopes and positivity
*10 years later*
CRISIS IN THE NINETIES
But still until the Early to Mid 90s the Japanese literally made the best stuff.
They cut huge chunks out of this. Good job Thames. The constant ads every three minutes were a nice touch too. I guess if I'm not going to watch one ad, putting in 11 identical ads for the same thing I have zero interest in will somehow be a productive approach.
Well they did adopt a new constitution in May 1947 whilst under US occupation. It was a new beginning from that point even though the overheating of the Japanese economy from 1990 on wards affected other western nations. Also the 1989-91 anti-Soviet revolutions in Eastern Europe which heralded the new era of globalisation in addition to the Gulf War contributed to the overall negative Western economic situation in the early 1990s. Not discounting other localised negative developments concerning export commodities in the economies of individual western democratic nations. Although various South-East Asian nations performed exceptionally well during this period.
The Mazak guy dismantled all the counter arguments in seconds.
one dollar to 107.17 yen
what does that mean: that Americans can buy
a heap of
Japanese cars, motorbikes, and TVs
while the Japanese will save more and wait longer to afford these same products ???
I was expecting some hero team of five colours to pop up sometime, to make a fabulous roll call.
( + I also wonder how parents in Great Britain and the both sides of Ireland would response for that sort of TV programmes - in case of being aired at children's hours.)
The speaker sound a “bit” arrogant and comparative: seems an anthropologist describing a tribal population.
Typical of all Western media.
Sounding like anthropologist would have been acceptable but he sounded like a zoologist.
It's western media lol.
No matter how much Japan tries to fit in they’ll never truly be fully respected and taken seriously by the West. The Chinese never had such foolish dreams as the Japanese.
Soy la única que piensa si alguno de estos niños se reconocerán después de 40 años?? O esos jóvenes estudiantes a que se dedican o dedicaron en su futuro,??? Ya se, ya se que tengo mucha imaginación!!!!
70 percent of the world's robots is insane
And 1% of humanity are power hungry murderers and pedophiles.
Just ask Klaus Schwab.
At 9:53 in America we call them the best students in school 😎
Nice idea
wtf, You would think it was from 1995-2000?
9:26 are you speaking english or japanese 🤔🤔🤔
9:15 they never knew that a Recession was on it's way 😢 and 10 years after this they lost it
And the saddest part is they've never recovered and actually their future is looking bleak...
*Thanks Plaza Accord :)*
Why do they have a watchman with a torch to patrol the factory floor. When they can switch on the lights? Surely they can afford the electricity bill
Awesome quality products!
Love Japanese products.
I remember the revulsion in the 70s of the slave like mentality of Japans workers..flash forward to Amazon workers pissing in buckets
The game they were playing is basically pickleball, invented in the US (Washington State) in 1965. I played it in the winter along with squash, handball and racquetball. Your basic company town. Quit your job and you lose your residence.
year 2019:
Japan Gov't is facing 300%+ debt problem.
R u japanese or chinese
@@saqibali6998 Chinaman
Proton and Perodua, product car brand from Malaysia get technology from japan (Mitsubishi and daihatsu) and seling distributed to global by UK
Is it that guy in the start who makes a robot of himself?
Hiroshi Ishiguro Is the name of the guy who makes a robot with his face.
They said Shunichi Mizuno, so no.
Hiroshi Ishiguro is 56 years old. This video was filmed 37 years ago. Go figure.
No. It's his doppelganger.
yes it's him, he changed his name to hide the fact that he already completely merged with machine
I live in Russia, not in Moscow...
36:50 If only they could predict how Japanese robots would become...
yeah they got megaman now :(
8:59 🤣🤣 The kids who jumps-down twice!
The cram school teacher has such beautiful handwriting.
Timestamp?
@@rhodesianwojak2095 10:25
And about 10 years later the economy would be in a recession, from which it has never really recovered.
Everyone believed that they were going to overtake America before the Lost Decade of the 90s.
@Marcus-Aerilius Maximus says:
"This is due to the trade agreement with usa doneduring that time. Who knows how far japan would have reqched...."
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!980s bubble. and many more reasons.
Basically, Japan dug its own grave.
They still don't know why it happened and why it still hasn't gone away.
If they did, it would have been start recovering long ago.
Quantitative easing, my ass.
It hasn't worked anywhere.
@Marcus-Aerilius Maximus says:
"well, japanese are smart ppl so they should have figured something out by now..."
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What are they waiting for then?
@Marcus-Aerilius Maximus says:
"Pretty sure there are things us plebs dont know about."
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By just waiting and let the people suffer from recession meanwhile?
You seem to have unlimited trust towards the government.
You don't know any government which betrayed the people in favor of handful of wealthy individuals?
@@le2380 no no, you don't understand not having infinite growth isn't good the certain echoes
Interesting to view this video almost 40 years later... Is there a lesson to be learned?
wasn't expecting him speaking english . And this in 82, plus i don't get why japan was always so interested in robots.
HE SPEAKS ENGLISH! WTF. Amazing.
He can walk!
But most important, he can walk
what that yamazaki automatic factory produced?
They produce machine tools that make more products...that essentially perpetuates this entire process.
Adamlara helal olsun.çok akıllılar.
23:30 that gentleman said he is worried about intelligent robots replace workers.....we are still worrying about itt today!
Because it's been happening and it's accelerating