RC286 - 2013-11-15
1 micrometer vs. 8 nanometer...
These guys enjoyed their jobs, just like their hobbies.
Their jobs WERE their hobbies.
What always stunned me was that Japan has so many times set the standard for quality in both consumer and professional goods.
Long time ago I worked a temp job as a lead for a Korean firm who did repairs on high-end copiers (IBM). These guys also took a lot of pride in what they did and it showed. I also did my job better (back to owner shipping) due to a supervisor who was very nice but encouraged me to raise the bar on daily outgoing quota. At the end of the assingment they took me out for dinner and praised my work. I'd never seen that kind of appreciation for a "job well done". Good Stuff.
Japan definitely lost its lead in semiconductor production after this was shot.
That was a really comfy series. Thanks for sharing :)
Outstanding documentary.
This documentary was made 1992 by NHK International Inc and presented by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.
Disco still leads the market in dicing equipment. I would imagine there are still 30- or 40-year old Disco machines doing this work in labs.
The last sentence is the words of a prophet. Amazing that he already knew the environmental issue is the next key subject in the mass semiconductor production.
Disco cutters slice the human hair 10 times - length wise!!!!!
Back in the late 1970's we used those cutters in England. The blades really were that good, if handled properly. But one careless operator could destroy a bank of a dozen or more blades in an instant. They were expensive, so novices didn't get to use a single bladed cutter until the blade had been used many thousands of times. One secret to using those diamond blades was to make sure that the rotational speed was kept high, and another was to be careful to maintain lubricant pressure within the correct range.
WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! (and I've only seen one minute of this doc! Pls do not take it away...
Excellent 4-part documentary! I watched at afternoon and enjoyed very very much! Thank you! I really LOVE all this technology!
Wow Japan started with a few idea" from America, cool story from the ground up, they have my respect, thank:s for a view from the rising sun... !
Long time ago I worked a temp job as a lead for a Korean firm who did repairs on high-end copiers (IBM). These guys also took a lot of pride in what they did and it showed. I also did my job better (back to owner shipping) due to a supervisor who was very nice but encouraged me to raise the bar on daily outgoing quota. At the end of the assingment they took me out for dinner and praised my work. I'd never seen that kind of appreciation for a "job well done". Good Stuff.
Thanks. I really enjoyed this series, despite the inevitable VHS video quality losses.
Wow. Random nudity haha. 25:05
Really amazing, an this is many years ago, I'd love to see what the industry is doing today.
Must be all lasers today.
great mind + great discovery = a better future.
I'm so glad to be bestowed with the grace of knowledge.
Be thoughtful because you are laying the ground for something great.
Bless you Gaia
Thanks for the upload, great stuff!
Thank you for sharing. This documentary series are awesome!
Fascinating and eye opening. Thanks for sharing with us.
I downloaded this Thank you
Amazing but this video appears from early 90s and so much of the cutting edge tech seen here is now woefully obsolete in itself.
And so the title says "a history of Japan's electronic industry".
25:12 wtf?!?
There must be something wrong with me, I love the sound of that punch press. The advancement in punch presses has speed up and now it sounds more like a mini gun. New hydraulic presses don't make full revolutions and instead swing back and forth.
Thank you
1:43 Just what the hell is going on here? I was told that the Japanese have an elaborate protocol for exchanging business cards, requiring them, amongst other things, to offer and receive the cards with both hands. I'm shocked and appalled to see that they only use one hand in the featured footage!
lol
lol. I thought the same thing.
286? Wow, that's really a distant memory. You must be around for some time by now to appreciate the x86 series.
(Please don't tell me that RC286 is some new and superfast synchronious serial interface I've never heard about.)
日本が輝いていた頃
Where do you get this video.
2018?
I bet Disco can really cut a rug.
Very cool docs, cheers from ZL1MPU
Japanese technology is the best. The only reason Japan fell to China is because China manipulates their currency to the point that Japanese products are more expensive and cannot compete anymore. I loved the Betamax when it first came out. For the first time I could watch a movie at home and pause it to go to the bathroom. I will never forget the magic of that moment.
Do you know why Japan has no fighter jets ? because that is why they have tech ,but jets are high tech, hmm
Perhaps, Japan's shrinking population has something to do with its economic decline too, on the other hand China, at that time was trapped in its ideological mindset, which in the end has proven to be the best option, because first they developed strong institutions and after that jumped in capitalism.
@Pavle Pavlovic Or it was because they were NOT allowed to develop military technology LOL.. Did you even watch this whole series?
but that was then this is now.. They have created Their own Jet and developed much of the systems themselves in cooperation with the US. The Mitsubishi F-2.. Which was a deal they got double screwed over.. They had to give all the technology they developed (Intellectual Property)to the US yet still had to pay patent and licensing fee's for any US tech they used.
@TisJester XxX exactly , not allowed, free world indeed
@Pavle Pavlovic Because they were not allowed to make any military hardware after the war. Instead they make a lot of the high tech components for American Jets, And the wings for Boeing etc.
34:05 - now China is climbing and Japan felt down.
Japan still makes quality.
The Japanese were/are a much more honorable industrial adversary than the chinese are
In the 1970's, that's not what they were saying about the Japanese.
SOME chinese maybe but perhaps it's smarter not to generalise ...
Watch this
Frontline: Coming From Japan [The Fall Of The US Television Industry] (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aesJTsZqm6c
You seem to have dropped in the middle of the series. All the episodes up to now displayed anything but honorable behavior. I would call it industrial espionage at every step.
You may want to read "Princes Of The Yen" along with a few other things
Thanks for making this stuff available to everyone. You got a sub from me.
I hope you first took a shower before doing that.
This is a great documentary series, and it should be preserved.
My father didn´t had electronical parts, to make his laptop during war-time, now we have, thanks for showing and kind regards. I still love computers and would like to work with those.
Recommendable, but documentary is dated (1970s or early 1980s?)
Late 1980's to early 1990's. A reference is made somewhere in the series to past progress 'during the 1980's'.
@RWBHere we are only 10 years or so apart! :-)
Released 1991, here the video quality is very bad. You can find original longer lasting video, but on Japanese.
Lots of gifts for plant manager, lucky
ball bonding ......
8.08
JVC :japanese victory componant .
My last JVC camcorder sucked at almost any feature.
That's why it's my last and are glad to have lost it..
40s and 50s it was USA, 60s 70s and 80s it was Japan ... 90s, 00s 10s it's China. Who will be the next king of the manufacturing? Robots? Artificial Intelligence? It's been interesting to follow the entire history of the semiconductor industry from Bell Labs (Bill Shockley John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain) to Japan in the 1990s. And I've watched the whole thing on a device I make phone calls with that's made in China. Looking forward to someone documenting the history of the semiconductor industry in China. But there might be more robots than people in that Documentary!
lol 90 degree bows here and there ...love how feudalism found its way into modern Japan. Your company was as much your family as the one you have at home. Your company is most likely your cause of death as well....these guys were worked haaaaaaard. A job for life in return for dogged loyalty and hard work has long left the expectation of most Japanese workers now though.
Once china opened up, and countries de regulated, Japanese companies became disloyal to their workers- by making them redundant. As such, workers became untrusting of companies. Happened the world over.
Given scope & magnitude of problems facing Japan, ministry of science & technology should allocated R&D funding to solving water, air, clean electricity & affordable electricity production, new super safe higher efficiency nuclear, rare earth free magnets of good flux strength that are heat fade tolerant without any rare earth materials. Furthermore, Japan should focus on sustainable food production, especially with sea food & fish farming in biodynamic ways that are good for nature & the ocean to make sustainable long term yields possible. Energy efficient building optimization with super high efficiency HVAC & super efficient windows & walls & structural members insulating in nature from inside out with a focus on thermal retention for better heat maintenance or less temp drift to keep homes & buildings cooler & dryer in summer & warmer per properly humid in winter etc energy & heat storage technology with phase change materials & AI driven control of pumps fans & VFC motor controller for variable rate pumps & fans. Further optimization of microwave oven technology & efficient cooking techniques without burning carbon, all electric. Indoor air quality with HEPA & similar tech developed to keep semiconductor production facilities free of dust etc Plenty of work to keep everyone busy!
So this technology advancements is because of different countries competition.
Very enjoyable and informative. Its to bad the video quality is so bad.
Maybe it is recorded with American equipment?
NTSC: Never Twice the Same Color.
ZarV - 2014-07-08
Outstanding overview of technology development history. Haven't seen modern docs dealing with such details. Thanks, RC286.
When has the film been shot?
mokren ajaraca - 2016-10-24
original version →NHK special "Denshi Rikkoku"(electronic nation)
http://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/nhk-special/library/library_denshi_1.html
電子立国 ←search term
mehdan2 - 2016-10-24
hontou ni arigatougozaimasu! ^ ^
Klaa2 - 2019-01-14
"some forty years have passed since the birth of the first transistor."
It's the very first line. Sheesh.
Yola Montalvan - 2019-06-18
They forgot to mention when GODZILLA was created.
ScotSpeed - 2020-01-16
You can thank The History Channel and it's affiliates for todays so-called "documentaries" crap.