The wonderful things in which Japan is number one in the world.
Knitting machine maker Shima Seiki Mfg (島精機製作所). has a 90% domestic share and 60% world share in a computer controlled flat knitting machine. The enterprise was inaugurated in Wakayama in 1962.
In 1995, the Whole Garment flat knitting machine was introduced. It creates knitted articles three-dimensionally without cutting or sewing. About 3,600 sets were shipped by the end of March 2005 to the West and within Japan. Read More »
The sensational discovery of “Neutrino Oscillation” theory provides valuable predictions and plays an important theoretical role in the development of neutrino physics. Read More »
The world’s first digital camera with a liquid crystal display was made by CASIO (カシオ) and put on the market in 1995. It became a big hit. Read More »
In April, 2007, the International Whistlers Convention was held in North Carolina, U.S. Around 100 whistling artists from different countries gathered there. At this convention, three Japanese people won the championship. It was the first time at the International Whistlers Convention that the Japanese were crowned as grand champions. Read More »
On December 18, 1997, Tokyo Bay Aqua-line opened. It is the motorway where Ukishima in Kawasaki City (Kanagawa Prefecture) connects with Nakashima in Kisarazu City (Chiba prefecture). The total length of this line is 15.1km, with a tunnel length of 9.576m ascending and 9.583m descending, making it the best undersea tunnel in the world constructed by the shield tunneling. Read More »
Kanamysin has the remarkable effect of treating infection by highly-resistant bacteria. In addition, Hamao Umezawa (梅澤 濱夫) and others discovered other useful antibiotics of ray fungus origin, such as bleomycin (antineoplastic drug) and kasugamycin (rice blast prevention). Read More »
Sanyo Electronics developed an LCD projector called the Ultra Short-Throw Multimedia Projector PLC-XL50 (LP-XL50 in Japanese market) in June 2007. This projector projects an image of 80 inches from the main body of the projector just 8 cm (about 3.2inches) away. This is the world’s shortest projection distance. Sanyo’s previous projector LP-XL40’s projection distance was 103cm (about 40.6inches). In PLC-XL50, Sanyo put the lens in the back of the main component of the projector, so the distance from the lens is 46cm (about 18.1inches), less than half the distance of the LP-XL40. Read More »
In 1984 Prof. Ken Sakamura (坂村 健) of Tokyo University developed a basic computer software called Tron or “The Realtime Operating system Nucleus”. It enabled a very fast computer processing speed and was so simple that anyone could use it. Its specifications were open source. Read More »
