Japanese Note
Japan Post WWII to Present
Reforms
Political
- Constitution
- Kokkai (Diet)
- Military (deemphasize)
Economic Miracle
- Post WWII Boom (Auto, Ship, Electronics)
- Automobiles (Honda, Toyota, Nissan in top 5)
- Toyota Globally top selling auto brand since 2008 (GM held title for 77 years)
Toyota video
Toyota:
Toyota is the third best selling import brandin US in 1967.
Calty design research was built in San Diego in 1973, to develop vehicles to suit the american
market.
The newport beach california studio focuses on concept design and advanced design.
The ann Arbor studio designs the production of vehicles.
Toyota leg up in 1970 the oil crisis.
1975, Toyota became the top spot among important brands.
1986, sold one million cards in the US.
Offer reliability and good quality at a low price.
hit the market at the perfect time.
produce small cars.
toyota stretch the efficiency in the factory
emit waste and inconsistency as much as possible.
Toyota set up NUMMI
Porsche brought technology and factory from Toyota to produce boxer and lower cost cars.
1997, Toyota invent prius.
In 2019, Toyota will get about 48% Small SUV US car market.
That’s a Big Ship
Japan was world number 1 in shipbuilding by the 1950s.
South Korea leads by 1999.
Electronics
- Started small
- Innovation
- Consumer goods
- Future in robots
- By the end of World War I, Japan was the third-ranked shipbuilding nation in the world.
- During World War II the industry came under government control and built ships
primarily for military use. It used standardized mass production methods, but fell behind
the technological development of other countries.
Robots video
- Japan lead the Robot development in the world
- Honda developed the ASIMO, which is the first useful Humanoid robot, it can walk, run
and talk to other people.
- QRIO was the first Humanoid robot, which is the model and affected the ASIMO/AIBO
development.
- Lots of robots had been developed and used in the factories to help manufacturing.
Senkaku Vs. Diaoyu
Resources under the seabed
Video
● Tokyo says they have been there since approaching a Japanese fishing boat on October
11
● Two chinese vessels invaded Japan’s territorial waters, so it is regrettable that this
situation has continued for over two days. At sea, the japanese coast guard patrol boats
had repeatedly asked the Chinese vessels to leave the territorial waters.
● But in a press briefing, Beijing countered Tokyo;s territorial Claim
● Chinese vessels have been increasingly seen in the dispute in recent months.
● The current entry by Chinese vessels is reportedly the longest since 2012.
Everybody has Maps,
- China thought the east china sea would include the red line region.
- Japan thought the border should be a blue line.
- South Korea thought inside the whit line is their country’s region.
Military
- Military Expansion fears of N. Korean threat, and Chinese expanded influence.
Japan Sets Record $52 Billion Military Budget
- government approved a ninth consecutive rise in military spending on Monday, funding
the development of an advanced stealth fighter and longer-range anti-ship missile
- Japan is buying longer-range missiles and considering arming and training its military to
strike distant land targets
- Japan will spend $323 million to begin development of a long-range anti-ship missile to
defend its southwestern Okinawan island chain.
Nuclear Power
- Since 2011 Fukushima Daiichi (Chernobyl)
- TEPCO future