Which is more technologically advanced? US or Japan?

Question

Please give me some facts to support your statement. Don't just say, US is more advanced because they have war jets or Japan is more advanced because they have robots... i want facts please.

Answer 1

I would say Japan. Most of the inventions that we use daily come from Japan. From household appliances, entertainment gadgets, arcade machines all the way to cars come from the Japanese invention. I would say US dominates another different field particularly in life sciences and research into biotechnology to find cures and vaccines. But then again, all other countries including Japan have such extensive research.

By the way, do you know the latest Japanese invention by Japanese doctors is to cure a sick patient with a dysfunctional heart by obtaining a certain DNA sample or something from the patient's leg and transplant them into the heart. By this Japanese invention, the patient now do not need to take the risk to go for a major heart surgery. This is a breakthrough in the medical science arena by the Japanese doctors.

Answer 2

USA 100%. I lived in Japan for a year. That Japan is technologically advanced in BS. Japan has a lot of robotics, it has a lot of automatic mechanical things. However, it lost the mobile phone market, no longer makes the world's most popular games (America does). The Asian internet is embarrassing, as it hasn't progressed in design and functionality since the early 2000s.

People who think Japan is MORE technologically advanced than any other country don't know what the **** they are talking about. Period..

Answer 3

It's kind of a subjective question. The United States is more advanced in fields such as biotechnology, information technology and aerospace. If you want facts check out the number of patents/pharmaceuticals brought to market/ aircraft type approved, etc. in the before mentioned fields. The US patent office breaks down patents by nation and category so it is easy to compare. If you take a look at nanotechnology or robotics, then those are fields that Japanese researchers have a real edge in.

When it comes to nuclear energy I don't think anyone would argue the fact that Japan's closed fuel cycle is more sophisticated than the fuel cycle used in the US. Really it's hard to compare US vs. Japan in terms of technology because we are talking about both transnational corporations and research scientists who obviously work with colleagues around the world.

Hitachi and GE work together on research, just as Toshiba and Westinghouse do. There are American scientists at Rinken, just as there are Japanese scientists at Stanford Research Institute. Technology doesn't have a flag, it just is. Most people would think of a firm like Sony as Japanese, but it is listed on the NYSE and in terms of dollar value does the majority of it's manufacturing outside Japan. This is another area of subjectivity.

I think one area US researchers could do better in is nanotechnology. It still seems to be a marginal field in the US. One area Japanese firms have fallen behind in is computer operating systems. Fujitsu and Hitachi have basically given up developing their own mainframe operating systems in favor of developing IBM compatible systems. Similarly, on the desktop NEC's proprietary OS has been overtaken by Microsoft products.

Here we are getting into marketing vs. technology. The Nintendo Wii contains no cutting-edge technology that I know of-tilt switches, the Linux OS and bang for the buck graphics chips from Taiwan seem to be what go into it. However Nintendo clearly came up with a great product. Similarly I don't think IBM's mainframe OS, or Microsoft Vista is any great innovation but obviously those firms have a lot of marketing muscle. So it's all very subjective.

Answer 4

USA. It took over twenty countries of the European Union to equal Boeing Aircraft makers, Lockheed Martin makes the most advanced weapons on earth, not to mention tanks, aircraft carriers and so much more that are made in USA, global position System so many things we use.

Stealth technology was invented by the USA, and China has to steal from the Americans in order to get that tech. The most technologically advanced jet in the world is American.

Answer 5

Whenever I have gone to Japan, I am amazed at all the cool inventions/gadgets/technology that I see in their stores made by Japanese companies that never make it to the US, or at very best, is very late in coming.

Answer 6

Japan by at least 5 years.

Answer 7

I think comparing the technology doesn't make sense. Each technology depends on each other.

But I would say the gadgets in Japan are more "intuitive" and human-friendly.

BTW, do you know 50% of the electronic products in the world adopt TRON OS kernel which was developped by Japanese? check "TRON Project".

Answer 8

I would like to present the point that the technological advancements are equal in both nations. Japan presents a more technological advanced image due to it's implementation of technology in modern society. I will support my point from the use of electronic touchless prepaid debit cards as an example of how the same technology is implemented in the same way, in different countries. In Japan especially Tokyo we have the Suica card that is used for payment of trai, bus and subway fares. The Suica card is based on commonly found IC chip technology. You simply charge the card with money at very convenient locations all over the staitons. You simply place the card near the sensors on the ticket gates on your way in and out. The fares are electronically debited from your card. Due to the dense population and the need to process people and transcations quickly, the surrounding stores, restaurants and newspaper stands in the train station area also accept the use of the Suica card to purchase goods and services. Thus the use of common technolgy into everyday life gives Japan an image of being an advanced society.

The same technology can be found in a very similar workflow in the United States. In South Florida, we have toll highways known as the Miami Dade Expressways and the Florida turnpike. Again common IT technology, is implemented in the form of the Sun Pass. Very similar to the Suica card in Japan, the Sun Pass allows user to enter credits by use of their credit card. As a driver passes though the toll gates, they are only required to drive under the sensors and the system will debit the card.

Here we have the same technology used to speed up processing of people in their daily commute. One can argue that since the Suica card is in your hand, it seems that Japan is technologically advanced compared to the USA. Further, I would like to point out that technology and the advancement of technology is done a global scale. Talk to anyone in the R&D or development departments of a large tech company, and they can give example of how they collaborate with companies and offices around the world.

In My case, my Japanese company, based in Japan collaborates with internal and external development offices in Japan, USA, China and Europe. Open a computer and you will notice that the components are supplied fro all around the world.

In closing Japan and the USA are equal in terms of technological advancement, only the implementation into daily lives give the impression that Japan is more advanced.

Answer 9

I would have to say Japan because.....
Japan is one of the leading nations in the fields of scientific research, technology, machinery and medical research with the world's third largest budget for research and development at $130 billion USD, and over 677,000 researchers.

Some of Japan's more important technological contributions are found in the fields of electronics, machinery, robotics, optics, chemicals, semiconductors and metals. Japan leads the world in robotics, possessing more than half (402,200 of 742,500) of the world's industrial robots used for manufacturing. It also produced QRIO, ASIMO, and Aibo. Japan is also home to six of the world's fifteen largest automobile manufacturers and seven of the world's twenty largest semiconductor sales leaders.

Answer 10

I think the US and Japan are equal but very different. It seems to me that US inventors are usually the one who first come up with something but the Japanese figure out how to make it better and easier and more advanced. We both need each other. I don't see it as a competition really. The whole world is the one who wins from advancements in technology. I do think Japan values education MUCH more than American do these days, and that could hurt us in the future.