7Ĭlearly said by someone who doesn't know what an invention is. Chalk that up to the rote learning education system that is not much different from other East Asian countries, despite Japanese proudly proclaim themselves that they are unique Asians. But they are good at taking the invented products, improving and re-engineering them into finished products. Japanese suffer the same problem like other East Asians. So that leaves rice cooker, as the only item listed in this article, by this Japanese press, to be really invented purely by a Japanese, which was Toshiba. It was the Dutch doctor, Willem Einthoven who invented the first ECG machine in 1903Īnd everyone has identified correctly that it was a Taiwanese living in Japan who invented the ramen noodles, probably getting his ideals from Chinese noodles. It was KODAK which first came up with DSLR camera, and it was Sony again who improved on the invention.īlu Ray Disks were collaboration between Sony and Philips. I won't even bother to mention who invented the transistor radio, it wasn't Sony. Japanese inventors from Sony just improved on the American invention. Hello Kitty isn’t a cat!? We called Sanrio to find out! © Japan TodayĬD and CD Players - was invented by an American. This new convenience store isn’t so convenient for the blind… World’s First Smartphone Integrated Rice Cooker Revealed by Panasonic Rounding out the top 10 are washlet toilets (36.8%), automatic ticket gates (27.2%), karaoke (25%), curry in a pouch (21.2%), dry-cell batteries and electric rice cookers (21% each), endoscope cameras (20%), and mechanical pencils and erasable ink pens (19.6% each).
Despite recent blanket coverage of the award, however, only 41.4% of respondents mentioned it. The next closest competitor for Japanese pride is the blue LED light, for which inventor Shuji Nakamura won a Nobel Prize in 2013. Inventor Momofuku Ando tapped into a worldwide demand with that one. Not a trace of the Galapagos syndrome there. The appeal of having a hot, tasty meal just by adding a little water seems to be nearly universal, with over 100 BILLION packets being consumed around the world each year. Perhaps instant ramen isn’t saving any lives, but you have to admit in terms of cultural cachet, it’s been a huge success. The result? An astonishing 57% of Japanese responded that Japan should be proud of instant noodles! They weren’t given a list but rather asked to come up with ideas on their own.
However, if you ask Japanese people which invention their country should be proud of, it turns out a far humbler product jumps to mind for most: instant noodles.įive hundred Japanese, split evenly between men and women, were asked in a survey which home-grown inventions they thought Japan should be proud of. Really, the list of Japanese tech that has become integral to our daily lives goes on and on.
LITTLE DISC IN RAMEN PORTABLE
Did you know that the portable ECG machine was invented in Japan, for example? So were electric rice cookers, DSLR cameras, CD players, Blu-ray discs, and gaming systems.
Japan’s best minds have contributed quite a few important inventions to the world over the years.
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