When did the decline of Japanese electronics and technologies begin?20 years ago, companies like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, Seiko Epson, Casio, Hitachi, Olympus, Seiko, Sharp, NEC, Yamaha etc dominated the electronics industry but today they are a mere shell of what they used to be like>refrigerators, washmachines, vacuums, batteries, and air conditioners>Laundry machines, including washer-dryers>lithium-ion and flash memory your phone uses were created by Japanese>Hitachi Building Systems is the second largest manufacturer of elevators in Japan>DSLR cameras>LCD>LED blue light>fiber optic communications>the first bullet train (Shinkansen)>CD was created by Sony based on PCM sound source>Video Home System (VHS), which preceded the DVD, was invented by Victor Company of Japan>Betamax, owned by Sony in Japan in May 1975>DVD>Sony Trinitron>Sony Walkman and Xperia>HD-DVD discs by Toshiba>Blu-Ray discs by Sony>Flash memory - created by Japan>J-SH04 – the world's first camera phone capable of sending picture messages>NEC were the Japanese IBM. PC-88 and PC-98>Japan DOMINATES the video game industry to this day>Nintendo (Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Eiji Aonuma, Satoru Iwata, Yuji Horii, etc)>SNES had Mode 7 and SuperFX>Sega Saturn had Hitachi SH-2. Dreamcast had Hitachi SH-4 and only console ever created that supports automatic order independent alpha blending>Sony PlayStation and Ken Kutaragi
>>107989532You just learned about Japan's lost decades zoomer bro?
bruh >>>/g/ is that way
>>107989532>When did the decline of Japanese electronics and technologies begin?When the US decided that Taiwan would be the semi-conductor making country and imposed soft tariffs on Japanese electronics. The US is literally the worse ally Japan could ever have.
>>107989532>When did the decline of Japanese electronics and technologies begin?Jap tech didn't necessarily decline, it's more like nothing really groundbreakingly new, in terms of tech, has really been created for the average consumer like it was during the past. Japan is still the largest manufacturer of Air Conditioners (Daikin), Cameras and Visual tech in general (Sony Group, Panasonic, Canon), Audio Equipment (Sony Group, Panasonic), one of the largest producers of semiconductors (this was a recent development via Jap government subsidies though they still aren't the largest like they used to be), fuck Sony Group owns half the world at this point and they are run by Japanese suits in Tokyo and a lot of innovations in tech still to this day come out of Japan only it's mostly in the industrial sector which I think is the main thing that people fail to realize when talking about the lost decade of Japan. Because of the US imposed tariffs on Jap semicons specifically a lot of companies had to cut back on consumer products and as such things like mobile phone development took a big hit. I would recon if that didn't happen then Sony's Xperia would have had a much bigger share of the Japanese market than it does now since the XPeria is still being released and to be quite honest it's a better phone brand than anything Samsung or Apple produce, actually durable and it's not as expensive as an IPhone.
>>107989532>>107989536(me)Oh and Hitachi virtually owns all of the key infrastructure for all of Yurops power grid at this point since 2020.
>>107989532They're still among the best, my guy.
>>107989532>When did the decline of Japanese electronics and technologies begin?when overseas investors invested
>>107989532>AkihabaraIronically that place was killed by the thing most people know it for today, yes anime killed Akihabara and it's a damn shame too since it was actually good once upon a time.
Did you get AI to write you that list or did you really have to explain what VHS is?
>>107989540yeah japan still has some great tech but Akihabara has been pretty bad for like a decade at least.when living in Tokyo I went because a 4chan friend came to visit and demanded we go. it was mostly overpriced shops aimed at tourists.Nakano Broadway has been the 'new Akihabara' for years but I wasn't blown away there either (do go there instead if you're in Tokyo though, should have told my friend that)
>>107989540If it were so amazing they'd just make a new otaku ghetto
>>107989543There are multiple and you not knowing about them is a good thing. Just stick to buying One Piece and Goku figures in Akihabara.
>>107989544Not everyone takes an interest in being an annoying tourist. Hope you stop going to wherever you describe and making westerners look bad.
>>107989532Short answer: China and Korea industrialized.Long answer: Japan still dominates for high tech specialized equipment, they make up a good 1/3rd of semiconductor process equipment or scientific instruments by number installed.Where they have eroded is in consumer products where margin dominates everything. Samsung and LG have eaten their niche in consumer electronics because Korea was, at least for the crucial decades of the 2000s and 2010s, behind Japan in costs for employees (though that situation has recently reversed). Unfortunately that probably won't help Japan because that manufacturing will move out from Korea to China- or more likely to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. which still lag behind them in terms of non PPP-adjusted GDP (a good proxy for effective labor cost). At first it will be contract production for overseas brands from the US/Japan/Korea etc. but as time goes on it is likely that locally owned competitors will be able to undercut the prices of major brands and establish themselves as budget alternatives (see what happened to TCL, Hisense - basically nonexistent in the early 2000s TV market but omnipresent now). So long as consumer goods have to be made by people, the cycle will continue with the wealth generated by the technology market shoving production to cheaper labor markets and spurring local competition there.
>>107989544It's funny how you're trying to be elitist here yet couldn't stop yourself from posting the location of one of them earlier
>>107989532As the saying goes, Japan has lived in the year 2000 ever since the 80s.
>>107989532Try >>>/int/>>107989544Checked
>>107989540It shall retvrn to 電気街 eventually. It is not yet time.
>>107989532anime is the only hope
>>107989532Western cultural influence ended, causing Japan to return to its original rigid culture of non-innovation.
oh look at that, /a/ jannies actually bother to move off-topic threads
>all these retards ITT that don't know but felt the need to reply anywayThe answer is in the mid-late 1980s Japan was going to release a new OS/kernel called TRON and mandated that it be used in all Japanese schools. This pissed off western tech companies like Microsoft and IBM. Who lobbied that the US Government place sanctions on Japan and force them to use Windows/DOS/UNIX. This led directly to the lost decades starting in the 1990s and crashed their economy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project#History>anime killed AkibaIt didn't. Otaku cultures peacefully co-existed together up until the 1990s until the economy crashed and all the shops had to leave because there was no longer hardware being made in-country. The reason it is targeted towards tourists now is because it's literally the only way to afford rent money. Since no one is going to come to the old electronic distract just to buy chink shit you can get anywhere else.
>>107989532After rise of Korean & Chinese manufacturing
thank you moot for moving bread
>>107989532part of it is the fact that, for whatever reason, got so much better at tech than them. I remember when the iPod came out, it was a huge hit. Before that you had japanese brands of Walkmans and Disc Players, but once the iPod came out it was game over for that line of products. Then you had the iPhone slowly kill the photo camera and camcorder industry, today only pretentious faggots buy an actual photo camera while the rest of the world just uses their phone. And the same applies to so many other products. Casio basically made digital watches and calculators, but now you have that on your phone, so they're dead as well.
>>107989926Needed to make room for more shonen generals and daily chapter threads.
>>107992047>today only pretentious faggots buy an actual photo camerawhat a fucking retard
>>107989532They are too coom brained
>>107992067>what a fucking retardad hominem. Yeah, I'm exaggerating, in fact I own several camera, it's a nice hobby, but the fact remains: camera sales have plummeted due to the smart phone. Source:>https://petapixel.com/2024/08/22/the-rise-and-crash-of-the-camera-industry-in-one-chart/
>>107989532>DSLR camerasThat was Kodak. They used a Nikon SLR body (Canon's for prototypes), but the digital tech used to convert it was Kodak's. Nikon later took it home with the first mass-produced DSLR (D1) designed from grounds-up, but they did not create DSLRs per se. Kodak DSC was the first proper and first commercially available SLR with digital imaging sensor and recording to digital storage.By the way Nikon is primarily an optics company, and they were (still are) really big in the photolithography and semiconductor steppers. Most people don't realize that when snapping their photos.
>>107989953>muh japan is the best!I doubt it calling you a fucking weeabo but then you wrote:>anime killed Akiba>It didn't.Holy shit get a load of this fucking weeaboo
>>107992425maybe you forgot e nikons with focal reducer
