The World’s Greatest Japanese

Director Chiba west general hopital / Kazuo Misumi.  It is 2006-2007 in “Best doctors in Japan” that the doctor ranking agency in the United States elected It was elected for two consecutive terms.
With “Rotor brator” attached drill at the tip of the catheter which smashes the thrombus and so on which became lime inside the blood vessel, it is proud of the actual results beyond the years 600 cases, by 3-year continuance, in the world, the number of cases of No.1. Read More »

In the early 80’s, Japanese traditional music made a contribution to the world music scene with the sensational drum ensemble, Kodo. At the end of 90’s, two talented young men known as Yoshida Kyoudai (the Yoshida Bothers) showed the world an innovative style of playing a traditional folk instrument. Read More »

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The Odate Sea of Trees Dome is one of the world’s largest wooden domes. It is located in Odate City, Akita Prefecture. This is the hometown of the faithful dog Hachiko. Its size is as long as 178m along the major axis, 157m along the minor axis, and it is 52m high. It surpasses the greatest local dome, the Izumo Dome (diameter of 140.7m, height of 48.9m), the Tacoma Dome in Washington state (160m along the major axis), and a dome-shaped gym of Michigan State University (162m in diameter). It can therefore compete with the other largest domes of the world. Read More »

In April 2006, RIKEN (理研) (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) and Nagoya University (名古屋大学) successfully produced the world’s first model mice for bipolar disorder by genetic engineering. Read More »

Toshiro Mifune (三船敏郎) is considered the most prominent Japanese actor in the world. He teamed with the charismatic Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (黒澤明) for sixteen films during his career. He starred Kurosawa’s Rashomon (羅生門) , which made him world famous when it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. He won two Best Actor awards at the Venice Film Festivals, for Yojimbo (1961) and Red Beard (1965). Read More »

When Hitoshi Kihara observed chromosomes of the wheat genus at cell division, he noticed that in wheat, seven chromosomes become a pair that performs the lowest gene function. He named it the “genome.” The concept of the genome extended all over the world and formed the basis for today’s development of biology and genetic engineering. (H.Winkler defined the genome as a pair of a gamete’s chromosome in 1920.) Read More »

Wasyuzan Tunnel was bored through Mt. Wasyu at Kurashiki City in Okayama Prefecture in 1988. There are two tunnels for cars in the upper part and two tunnels for trains in the lower part. This structure of two double-deck bridges (the shape of four eyes) was used for the first time in the world. Read More »

We would like to introduce the wonderful things in which Japan is number one in the world. Read More »

In 1849 (Kaei 2), Benkichi Ohno, a Karakuri Master (an expert in mechanical devices,) invented a practical photographic method that allowed printing without reversing right and left. This technique was unknown in Europe at that time. Two years later in 1851, Frederic Scott Archer, one of the fathers of practical photography, invented glass negative photography. Read More »

The Shinkansen first operated at the time of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964, and quickly smashed the world’s fastest recorded train speed of 160km/hr (held by France) at 210km/hr. This marked the beginning of the Superexpress Age. Read More »

In 1967, Kenichi Honda, an associate professor of Tokyo University, and Akira Fujishima, a postgraduate student, discovered photocatalytic reaction, the result when UV light is irradiated to titanium dioxide, causing water to split into hydrogen and oxygen. Read More »

In 1930 (Showa 5), Shirota discovered lactobacillus casei strain shirota (Yakult bacteria). At the time, he thought about bacteria as an epidemic, and that prevention was important as to not suffer, and a person can become healthy if the bowels are healthy. Read More »

In 1947, Hideo Uchida of the NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories completed an amplifier circuit (tripolar crystal) that would be the base of the transistor.  Read More »

Eiji Sawamura was a pitcher for the Tokyo Giants. In 1934, a Major League selection team visited Japan, and Sawamura took the mound in the 8th game.
Although he left the mound at the 8th inning and became the losing pitcher, he pitched well with 5 hits, 1 point lost and 9 strikeouts, and became famous by the name of “schoolboy Sawamura”. Read More »

In March 13, 1988, the Seikan Tunnel, which connects Hakodate-shi in Hokkaido with Aomori Prefecture in Honshu, was opened to traffic. The length of the tunnel is 53.85 km making it the longest undersea tunnel in the world. The length of the submarine portion is 23.3km. Read More »

St. Francis Xavier, during his missionary in Asia, saw in Japan an impressive cultural, economic and social potential. He valued Japan more than any of the nations discovered. Read More »

Though some atom models were proposed in the world of physics in the early 20th century, it was Hantaro Nagaoka, then professor at the University of Tokyo, who was the first to presented a Saturnian atomic model close to the presently accepted model. Read More »

Ethnologist Iwa Kusuma Sumantri has said that the Russo-Japanese War awakened the Asian people from their sleep.  The war showed that even a large country in Europe could be defeated by a small country in Asia. Read More »

In November, 2005, the Japanese medical equipment maker NIPRO had a new instrument, COCORO METER, which uses your saliva to measure your stress level. Read More »