" ELECTRONICS IN JAPAN TODAY " 1980s JAPANESE HIGH TECH INDUSTRY DOCUMENTARY COMPUTERS VCR XD13854
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This color educational film is about how electronics in Japan are being made and used. This was made in 1980.
A speeding express train. The train is magnetically levitated. Tests done using a magnetically connected bullet train. Light synthesis with plants as a Japanese scientist looks on. Industrial robots, they assemble a vacuum cleaner. Title card: Electronics in Japan Today (:18-3:22). Japan's wall street, numerous banks.The filmmaker stops a Japanese man in the street and asks him about his watch. Close on a watch. Inside the face of the watch. The man opens his briefcase and opens a calculator. Inside the calculator. Title card: Electronics (materials technology, device technology, production technology). Different types of electronics are shown on the screen. Vacuum tube. 1946 saw the birth of the world's first computer. Computers with lots of cords and wires. 1948 was when the transistor was created. A miniature transistor (3:23-6:08). A man uses a computer to do advanced train reservations. A train slows inside a train station. An express train leaves the station. People walk around Tokyo. Neon Japanese moving sign. Inside a Japanese newspaper office, men work and talk on the telephone. Stories are typed onto tape and then that is fed into a computer where it is set. Newspapers being printed. Airport with jumbo jets. Air traffic control computer screens. A plane takes off. Japanese police station. A police car with its flashing lights on the move (6:09-9:18). Tokyo at dawn, the downtown skyline. Men in suits walk to work. Rush hour in Tokyo. Automatic ticket barrier. A train on the tracks. Buses, cars, people walking. Industrial plant with steelworks. Men in a control room. Water splashing, hot molten steel being formed. Computer screen shows a new car being made. Automobiles on the assembly line being made by robots. A man puts a dashboard together. An engine is placed in a new car. Cars go slowly down the line. Computer robots are making computers. A man works at a computer (9:19-12:35). A computer controlled production machine. The tallest building has the faster elevator. People get into the elevator, the elevator speeds up the shaft. People at work in a high rise building, sensors are above them in case of fire. Doors shut automatically. A woman works in data processing. A copy machine makes copies repeatedly. A finger pushes a button, a woman holds a phone and places it down to make a fax go through (12:36-14:56). Cars race by. Traffic sensors. A more advanced traffic system is under development. A man punches in his destination and the computer recommends the best route. The car drives towards thee destination. A train on the tracks, it is unmanned. Electronics help detect what's going on with a patient. Integrated circuit moves. Photomask, wafer, emulsion. Exposure is shown in a diagram and explained as it reaches development and then etching. Diffusion is the last process. This leads to bonding and packaging (14:57-18:41). People at work in a laboratory. A silicon wafer receives sensitizer. The wafer is transferred by air to minimize contamination. Diffusion is complex. Circuit pattern is finished. Printed wafer cut into chips. Computer does bonding not manually (18:42-20:58). A man places pieces into a tray and puts it into a computer. IC (integrated circuits) Production chart is shown, 1974 vs 1979. Space technology, a rocket with a satellite is launched into space. Circuits are being made. Microwaves are being put together. Japan produces 90% of the world's VCRs. A new videodisc system.The player sits on a tv (20:59-24:01). Nada, Japan, deers graze in a park. Steps. Ancient buildings. People perform in front of tv cameras and see themselves. Japanese trading company. Clocks that show times in other cities are on the wall. People walk. Computers at work (24:02-25:23). A man works on a computer, he is instructing it with his voice. A man sorts merchandise ready to be delivered. Computer screens. Doctors at work on a patient while performing surgery. They are performing a kidney implant. An experiment is being performed with a model boat and some liquid helium. A superconductor magnet assists. Steel is cracked. Carbon fiber composite is broken apart. Acrylic fiber. Carbon fiber and resin. A magnetically connected train races by, a rocket takes off. Stills of possible space station (25:24-30:00). Statistics of the number of scientists in various countries (30:01-30:21). End credits (30:22-31:02).
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I'm so into 80s Japan these days.
I was fortunate enough to visit Japan back in the 1980s. It was a great experience. The Japanese people are so awesome!
I would have loved to have seen it. It must have been a golden age.
I do love the look of 70s and 80s mechas.
@@missplainjane3905 excellent question lol!
Yep, it’s so exciting, romantic, and charming.
hey did you find any other videos about japan in 80s can u pls link here ?
Made in Japan admired by the world . Hope my country also develops in such manner.
unfortunately that's not likely, your country has a lot of bad stereotypes such as not having toilets, persecution of minorities, being dirty and smelly, abuse of women, scamming etc. It's like the total opposite of japan.
mine has oil unlike jp and failed turning 1st world. Wish to turn it around.
Wow tech in the 80's was a decade ahead of what I had thought growing up.
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The Japanese developed a mind boggling amount of technological advances and innovations in the 1980s!
Then China stole all of the tech and undercut prices.
Americans who visit Japan are often amazed by the amount of paperwork involved, literally on paper. Many governmental departments and businesses still insist on having a hard copy for their records.
@aussiebear22 basically following the Japanese footsteps of copying Germany tech in the 50s/60s, a well-known history, just the cycle repeating itself
@@DirtyRobot To the communists, steal, cheat, copy is glorious
Even in the 50's, 60's & 70's and so on
The japanese components that changed my life:
1.elna re2/re3 capacitors
2.panasonic AN7164
3.JRC 4556
4.sanyo stk series class ab amp.
sadly 2. and 4. no longer manufactured.
What were they and what did you use them for?
@@keylanoslokj1806 for integrated amplifier
I think the Nissan VG-series V6 engine was a huge influence on my life.
My mom's 1985 Nissan Maxima had one.
It made me aware of the Nissan 300ZXTT which had the best one.
One thing that amazed me looking back was that in the 9 years my mom had the 1985 Maxima, the check engine light never came on. It seems miraculous.
I LOVE the music in this
Sounds like Kraftwerk but I want to know who did the music
@@lucardsplace2 which is crazy cause I was trying to find video of 80s tech while listening to Kraftwerk lol.
Then the 90s happened and the lost decades stifled their innovation
@Commenter I'm sure they are, but they don't command the massive lead they had prior
The US did them dirty with the plaza accord
@@sutherlandA1Yes they do
Nothing happened in the 90s and their innovation is as strong as ever
I love the Muzak version of Mr Roboto as background music
Every time it amasses me Japan technology.
The best...hands down
Good film - appropriate for specialized "tech" high schools at the time to encourage students to start a career in electronics, to ramp up business for Intel and others in competition with Asian companies.
I agree. I can't stand when high school teachers and staff sell college as the only way to success. It is even worse when certain college educated people treat tradesmen as inferiors. I dream of such snobs to be unable to find an HVAC technician on the hottest or coldest day of the year.
Theres a show i use to watch in the 80's that featured japanese culture inovations and more its like a short docu of different stuff.
5:55 "One IC only a few mm square contains hundreds of transistors".
Wild that today a single x86 CPU has tens of billions of transistors in a square only a few mm.
But it all started with that one transistor (and vacuum tube for that matter). None of what we have today would have been possible without it. It all just didn’t appear out of nowhere.
@@hdgboy it didn't come from nowhere.
ALIEN technology anyone?
@@josephlove Someone stole from the aliens in Area 51 ?
Thanks for all your uploads.
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Fibre optics blow my mind. Bet they never thought it'd enable something like the scale of today's Internet. Incredible.
FIBER***
1970s: Japan is going to take away all the manufacturing!
2000s: China is going to take away all the manufacturing!
I have had a burning desire to visit Japan since I was 5 years old. I think the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo was a huge influence. I know for sure that mom's 1985 Nissan Maxima was a huge influence.
Back in the 1990s, my elementary school teachers would try to motivate us by saying "Japan is 10 years in the future, work hard and catch up." They also told us about how efficient everything was, meanwhile, I wanted a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo and I knew they didn't save fuel.
Had the American car industry built things right back in the late 70s and early 80s, my desire to visit Japan may never have happened. Either that, or my desire wouldn't be intense. I was born to be a car guy, but what kind of car I would be interested in was shaped by outside forces.
25:10 The official working day ends, but people work themselves to death for "Uncompensated overtime." Karoshi is the word for "Death by overwork" and it became more common after the economic bubble burst.
26:18 There is no way I think I could learn a decent number of Kanji. For some reason, I can't even get my mind to memorize hiragana and katakana, which have far fewer characters. I thought I could learn the basics because I can tell the difference between hundreds of different car models which all look similar to each other.
I was born in 1984, so there was an event I didn't witness. I lived in the USA, and Japan was given the title of the leading discount goods manufacturer for many years, but eventually became known as a leading country in making precision goods. When did that fact or perception change?
That 300z was my dream car! And I graduated in 84!!
@@abundantYOUniverse I was in elementary school when I wanted the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. I was different from the other elementary school boys at the time, because most wanted a Corvette or a Mustang.
Funny,. I loved my 1985 Maxima. My favorite though was my 1976 Datsun (Nissan) 280Z.
Japan's effectively been an outpost of the US Empire since the end of the WWII. China is very different beast, huge multinationals have the US government by the balls (as it always is in a so called liberal democratic capitalist system). They have nothing to gain by bringing down China. Plus China is looking for ways to achieve self-sufficiency aggressively and their influence in the 3rd and developing world is increasing as a 100x better alternative to Western financial imperialism and exploitation in these countries.
@@josephlove Although I loved mom's 1985 Nissan Maxima, there were many unreliable things about it. I had a frenemy across the street who's mom also had one, he loved it, but it had all the same problems.
An '80's Maglev train could go 500 kph. Yet in 2022 America, it takes 31 hrs for an Amtrak train to travel between NYC and Miami (1300m/2000k ). With NO stops it would still be 18 hours.
Great music.
8:00 interesting. Electronics now a days have advanced to the point where the printed newspaper is all but a thing of the past. Now days you can get instant free news just going online through any kind of terminal. And holy cow that vintage Toyota production line.
Actually, it seems that this newspaper printing method was quite outdated in 1980. Check out the "Farewell - ETAOIN SHRDLU" documentary about NY Times transitioning from hot metal typesetting.
To be fair - they appear to be using a mix of both technologies - hot metal typesetting, but controlled by computers. But still, punched tape was pretty outdated by 1980.
@@meowchin
You visited ?
I know this is a documentary from 1980s but somehow whenever the narrator wants me to be impressed.. I am like.. "That's cute".. 😂
Man, how things have changed.
a lot of the tech from 40 years ago might as well be black magic for the average person to comprehend today
So much advancements for 1980s by Japan. They are truly developed.
No doubt some of the Japanese made electronic modules in 80's and 90's Hondas are top notch grade for their time.
What blows my mind are the ones used by Nissan, which would have (Mostly) been made by Hitachi.
My mom's 1985 Maxima had blazing hot underhood temperatures that destroyed starters, alternators, and A/C components. However, it never destroyed any EFI component would would illuminate the check engine light.
Honda got most of their electrical parts from Denso, also a great brand.
Japan still to this day make the best stuff. Don't care if the Chinese or Korean shit is cheaper or whatever. The made in Japan still means quality. Cars to cameras still great products.
Yes Yes Yes!!! From Germany I approve this message. My parents still have a lot of things in use, which they bought in 1990. Our Sony Radio, built in 1990 works perfectly fine. These things were built to last.
It usually means good. There will always be a certain number of duds. The Mazda RX-7 Twin Turbo enters the chat.
Who remembers the Video Disk System at 23.49...?? The pioneering car navigation system was so.....cool! Made in Japan, the best ib the world.
Wow japan is at it since long time before I was born, great nation 👏
Unmanned train system in the 80s holy shit
I have 80's Casio pq-40u alarm clock, it is still working)
My first electronics device from CD player to PlayStation, and everything in between was/is a Sony, thankfully. 😁
Sad that Sony and even Nintendo have to use Manufacturing in China than their own Nation.
My Super Nintendo Controller was made in Japan, Same to the Early Gameboy Color Models before they moved to China Entirely starting with the GBA and Gamecube.
Piece of advice for ya: never enter a knife game tourney with the robot at 20:48, it’ll just end in tears, blood, and broken dreams. Learn more in the direct-to-video sequel to the Stallone classic, Over the Top II: Between the Sides. Starring Fred Dryer.
Good. Comment from india
The Japanese technologies are one of the best in the world and also they are widely used in different parts of the world. The Japanese companies such as hitachi, samsung, casio, seiko, Suzuki, Fujifilm, mitsubishi are very popular world wide. The Japanese people are very higher doctors and they are very disciplined.
Samsung????
Samsung is from South Korea.
@@benoitbrule1893 Yep, and it distinguishes themselves from Japanese firms by specializing mostly in bloated and buggy software, bad UIs, and non-durable mechanics - opposite of traditional Japanese design. Although also Japanese have become somewhat worse than they used to.
@@TheSimoc👍 very true !!!
Sony is from Japan, Samsung is from South korea
The soundtrack is great! Is that jaco pastorius at 15:40 ?
Although as we know now the first computers was not built in 1946 but earlier, being Collossus used for code breaking at Bletchley park, of course at this time the history of it was probably still classified so it's understandable that theses inaccuracies creep in.
Nice cover of technology maybe god will bless my brain to be a sharp Electronic engineer
that's amazing tech 9:52
Technology back then seemed to have served more of a purpose. Now it's used more for entertainment and waste. Oh well!!
lol "waste"
It's a waste but your using today's tech to watch this and write this comment lol
My favorite joke is that we all have a supercomputer in our pockets, connected to every library. What do we do with it? Make memes about why cats are jerks.
its really interesting to see how much new inventions were back than and not in japan alone but also other countries, today it feels like we just optimize and do not invent
Rather, today we just make less optimized implementations with horrible software bloat and extremely awful user interfaces.
This technology was ahead of its time
Yes. This film is from 1980, so the technology on display is mostly from the 1970s; an underrated decade of incredible advances.
smooth 19:36
Can anyone get me a link of the song from around 11:00 ? Cant locate it from referenced albums :(
Thanks!!!
cant wait to buy a video recorder
6:35 "This computerized pigeon looks and acts just like a real pidgeon."
The narrator of this film sounds like Sam Donaldson. Very engrossing documentary.
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Japan's energies were much better spent pursuing electronic innovations rather than the western pacific dominance they were going for just 40 years before...
The Pacific was dominated by the Western powers who enslaved the nations of Asia. The clash between Japan, the only non-western nation to successfully industrialize was a matter of time. From the north were the russians, from the west the Americans, from the south the British, french and the Dutch, and from the east a civil war broke china with a western inclined government (ROC) and Soviet influenced states (Mongolia, East Turkmenistan/Xinjiang and Manchuria).
@@user-sx5ze8oq3k not really. Japan got greedy. Ironically they're better off with free trade instead of their own sphere of influence
@@marnixmaximus3053 not entirely true.. Not sure which history you learnt.. Either way they learnt from the West the importance of industrialisation, bureaucracy and a strong military during the Meiji Restoration and grew rapidly. The Western powers then saw them as a threat and blocked them from natural resources (containment). This led the Japanese to a lot of war atrocities and genocide thereafter, but primarily for the resources required for further industrialisation. This is what we learn in our history books in South-East Asia.
That's why whenever we are able to look pass the media propaganda and detect neo-colonialism/containment/human-rights preaching to keep the global south down, people in this region tend to get disgusted.
@@pr0newbieand now the Rothschilds, Orsinis, deep American state and other globalists control both the East end the West and international politics are just a meme... .
27:00 What happened to that propeller technology? Any updates ?
"Electronics can replace the human brain"
I think this world is better than heaven
People keep saying how Japan's population is in decline but,
there are now, at present, more Japanese people than there were in the 1980s.
It's clear that it's not the quantity of people, but the quality.
Populations ebb and flow, there is no need to import mass amounts of Somalians to Japan..
and in doing so, do you think the crime rate will go down? stay the same? or go up?
Moral of this story is, Japan needs to close the borders and remain Japanese.
It will be fine, in 100 years, in 500 years.
Those immigrating to Japan should adapt to Japan as much as is practicable, not the other way round. Somalians (or those of any other nationality) should not be forced to leave their country for better opportunities elsewhere. Rather, they should be able to solve their problems and prosper right where they are.
There’s no way there is more Japanese today then before since their birthrate was around 2 in the 80s even. Is this actually true
Take improved Honda Asimo robot (or Atlas) . Install advanced GPT AI. No more need for gimmie-grunt labor. That's why they're gonna nerf AI and advanced robotics in the US. Just watch.
@@telesniper2 oh absolutely, or Tesla is making Optimus too, a humaniform robot, within 10 years we'll start having such robots helping rich people around the house or manufacturing jobs.. indeed, we won't need 1,000,000 more people to do the hard stuff, as they say, there is no need for the mass flood of people.
Indeed, there is no need to have Idiocracy to raise birth rates.
There is no magic dirt.
Most people promoting immigration are either corpos looking for discount labor, or the useful idiots saying "Borders are racist and xenophobia."
land of Sony Walkman.
I still own that 1980s Sony TPS-L2 Walkman. After replacing the rubber belts, it's playing
@@capricorn839 I am keeping a walkman of another model.
I sometimes jokingly called it "Toyota land."
@@skylinefever well you refer to a ride not electronics 😄
In 1980s:
Super LSI: 100,000 transistors.
Present:
AMD Epyc processor: 39.5 billion transistors.
🤣🤣🤣
Obey Moore's law.
All those technologies were developed during WW2
german efficiency did leave the room.
I think about how a VW Golf and Toyota Corolla are screwed together.
Artist / tilte of the music at 7:00, does any one know?
maybe tomita
@@woreno Couldn't find it... yet
darude sandstorm
Mag lev... what happened?
HSR and air travel was apparently cheaper
Funny. They show an Okuma in there. They were sued by Warner & Swasey because they ripped of the 2 axis Titan. In the end W&S won, but it was to little to late. The bean counters sealed their fate. It was a done deal by 1995.
1:55 my man has a hydro grow
Technology brings not progress, but only an illusion of progress. And the current generation shall gradually realise this, to their horror.
Technological advancements _promise_ human advancement, rather than guaranteeing it.
Now... Samsung in Korea has all. Very big change!
27:07 Caterpillar Drive??
Yes they built a sub with magno hydro dyamic propulsion in 1990.
I was based on a Russian Scientist work.
I thought the Germans had the first maglev. Wow
A synonym, technology is only equal for Japan in 1980s
I REMEMBER NATIONAL!!!!!
It is memorizing me 80s in USSR, similar to all that was shown at this video.
Are there any videos on Soviet integrated circuit/microcircuit and semiconductor technology?
Once, everyone believed that japan can out run us in 1980...then
I do remember from about 1989 to 1993, my teachers tryin to motivate us with that. They said "Japan is 10 years in the future. Work harder and catch up."
I liked joking about how for years I was doing what the herbivore men do. Such people would absolutely not be happy about that.
UC whoop whoop
6:45
9:12
And newspaper front page is balding dictator person :D
But they’re using 747s.
funny.. some countries could've make it until today
Very good find, Mr. Periscope. I'm surprised Japan was so far advanced back then. I think America had different priorities, just not sure what. Probably military.
8:45 the music would probably go well with some of todays videos! 😁
9:05 that number is 99.9% now. Not because of computers, though.
10:00 that was peak hours!? Good lord! I forgot how sparsely populated the world was back then compared to today. I mean, look at those streets! Nearly empty by todays standards.
13:23 couldn't they have just said 10 m/s?
Their conviction rate might have something to do with being able to hold a person without formal charges for over three weeks. There are several other differences between the Japanese and American system that would make even the "Law and order/lock 'em all up" crowd freak out.
Christopher Conard Japanese police, prosecutors, said judges are corrupt. The 99% is artificially high. The citizens lack many basic rights compared to the US judicial system.
@@painful-Jay It is just like in the rest of East/South East Asia. Look at Singapore/Malaysia to lead the way, the others aren't much better. But in Western society (Japan somehow belongs to that) not everything is as shiny as it seems if you look under the carpet.
It's scary. The story of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is an example of how they treat people as guilty until proven innocent.
🤔 America took responsibility for Japans defense so it focused on technological advancements rather that defense infrastructure. WW2 proved to beneficial for it in long run.
All thanks to America.
Ever heard of plaza Accord? America implying Plaza Accord destroyed the Japanese economy. In 1980's it was predicted that Japan Would Surpass the United States Economy. But plaza Accord didn't allow that to happen. And Japan's economy has not grown since more than 30 years because of its effects.
Not to mention they got a ground up reboot with the latest advancements in Operations Research Theory which was STRONGLY resisted and ignored in the US. Look up William Edwards Deming. He's the real creator of all that "the Toyota Way" stuff. Of course the Japanese deny him credit, the ingrates. Look at what Nissan did to Ghosn after he SAVED their company. Same $hit, different generation
Lots of errors and over-simplifications. Air traffic control has never been, and never will be "automatic."
I did notice that. Computers certainly *help* the process of controlling aircraft in many ways, but the decisions are still ultimately made and communicated by voice radio, from one human to another. The most significant aids to aircraft navigation remain radar and carefully aimed radio beams.
"Forced Agriculture" lul
Japan had so much promise. Too bad they threw it all away and now mainly concentrate on the production of strange animated fetish pornography.
They had all kinds of odd stuff before then, such as the used panty vending machine.
"Riding on a cushion of air..." Wrong. The Japanese built it and an American can't faithfully describe it. That's reassuring.
I got only one thing to say. You have an electric guitar? Forget switchcraft toggle switches. Get a Japanese toggle switch. Or better yet, aircraft quality. Get real. World's better.
I tried watching this for a few
but with that crap at the bottom of the screen with your name ruined it so thumbs down
still more advanced than the US in 2020, sad
5 ad breaks in the video. I don't think so 👎👎👎
use adblock
isnt it nice of the japanese to trap people who are in a room thats on fire to protect the rest of the building..