Japan is unrivaled in all technology sectors for key inventions in 2006 and 2007 according to the latest trilateral patent analysis. This means that Japan has a very capable workforce for innovation; furthermore, it suggests that Japan has a group of elite intellectuals rivaling any other group. Japan's extraordinary creativity and capabilities for innovation is supported by this evidence, which is consistent with scholastic aptitudes and intelligence quotient of the Japanese students. Moreover, Japan's geographical situation incites the government to invest heavily in technology development in contrast to basic science for greater export revenues, although there is a gradual effort to detach from that investment strategy for the prospect of a spill-over effect. Contrarily to the U.S., Japan invests mainly in the private sector, which ties innovation activities to commercial interests; for instance, investment in robotics are made as it has a foreseeable market in the future. Despite, Japan's focus on technology development, it has produced a scientific elite that includes Nobel laureates. There is no physiological factor that was found to cause high creativity. We can speculate that a genetic predisposition to high intelligence predisposes also for high creativity.

But odds are if we're talking modern day, these 'cultural specialties' were idealize by other East Asian cultures because of Japanese advancement.

Japan is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvQ_pp1VFI...re=channel_page

wtf

Don't know, have not live there. I like theirs consumer product. Here in America and the West in general, they have micro bugs, supercomputer, hollographic imaging, satilites tech, silent motor, as well as biotechnology that mimic facial characteristics, and relative top of the line indicators tech,... But yeah, the American and West suck, theirs not what I would call good people. They perhaps think they are smart, but man, they are stupid and greedy and lowlife. I hope some of them burn in hell where they rightfully belongs. Ha ha ha, did not know Asian are the sucker here, ha ha ha...ha oh wait I am Asian.

In terms of commercial, or patentable, technology, Japan is the clear leader and in all patentable technology fields as indicated by the most recent data on innovation. Despite contradictory claims found on the Internet, the statement is true—those contradictory claims stem from pure ignorance, or lack of knowledge and understanding about the statistics they use to base those claims, or perhaps they are simply outdated. Per capita, both Japan and South Korea have the most patents by far than any countries. Japan is the world leader or among the best in certain science fields such as material science. Moreover, instead of the absolutist perspective of Westerners, one should adopt a more relativist perspective when interpreting those statistics. Japanese R&D investment practices differs from that of the U.S., it allocates its R&D funds in the private sector mainly—which means that investment priorities are affected by profitability. The U.S. invest more in the public sector than Japan. Moreover, Japan invest far less in basic sciences than the U.S., which the number of scientists in those respective countries suggests. The U.S. also practices patent inflation and a lot more so than Japan. For instance, the U.S. pushed for patent inflation in order to include software innovations—this can be seen as a political move in order to protect U.S. interests. Being the first mover, it greatly benefited them as they were the first to mobilize their local industry. One must know when analyzing patent statistics, that the number of patent application is less reliable than the number of patent granted. Also, international patent, contrarily to national patent, only has a procedural distinction and is not indicative of innovation. The best reliable data for important patentable innovation is the trilateral patent data. Moreover, when a group has a higher average IQ, it means it has a lot more geniuses than the group it surpasses given an equal, higher and even lower standard deviation depending on the value. Nothing suggests that East Asians have a lower standard deviation; however, we can rule out immediately any contradictory claim to the one that states that the difference is all but negligible—East Asians may even have a higher standard deviation considering biological and psychometric data we have until now. East Asians have the highest IQ out of all ethnicities and race, Ashkenazi Jews have a verbal IQ of 107.5, which corresponds roughly to an IQ of 103, they also have a higher gC than gF contrarily to East Asians.

Interesting links:

http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/02-14-04/...ion.cgi.24.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070518/j...tion-leader.htm

How many patents a country claims doesnt say everything about that country's creativity.

Just want to know: What are best inventions made by Japan?

I mean inventions that have (or had) a big influeance on every day life of all people like: internet, jet engine, a car, bow and arrow, sth like that.

Inventions are good, but perfection are of great importance to society as well.

ipod

East Asians have higher IQ than any other racial or ethnic group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8fKj9V_9EA

White people are just a bunch of criminals.

That's true, but i think that it takes more creativity to invent something new then perfecting something.

banned

So, what really came out of "creative Japan" lately?

I don't believe any country has higher IQ than others- maybe a few points.
However, some country do study harder than others for sure.
How much of this "studying harder" improves IQ? A few points.

I know many Asians envy Japan and Korea, but if you see how much they study and work, I'm not sure if you'll still envy them. Typical high school students study from 7AM to midnight. Typical workers work 8AM to 10PM easily. The society is so competitive that you won't believe it.
Btw, they don't even have natural resources.

There is a funny story. As you may know, Japanese is known as hard workers to many westerners, and Korean is only people who think Japanese is lazy. LOL.

Many Japanese and Koreans die by what's known as a "sudden death" due to stress. The suicide rate is very high, probably #1 or 2.
All their fortune come with a heavy price.
It's not IQ that made them rich.

Are other Asian countries ready for the same?

and what's really came out of "creative USA" lately? oh no don't tell me you CREDITED all of thing came out of USA to whiteman?

counting patents is dumb, if you wanna see real innovation you should read science magazine's top 10 scientific breakthroughs.

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/12...ghs-of-2008.ars

scientific breakthroughs is biased toward richer countries without inherent geographical disadvantages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions

Your a liar Green Wasabi. Your own link says that the Ashkenazi have an IQ in the 107.5. (US Ashkenazi have IQs in at 112.5.) Your link also says nothing about Jew's fluid intelligence. (gF) In fact, it says clearly states that Jews have a quantitative reasoning of 109, and that is a good proxy for gf. You should use that superior intellect to actually read.

In addition, people forget that an IQ test, like a SAT test, is simply a test. While it is a good way to gauge someones skill in analyzing spatial, and verbal skill, it doesn't measure everything. Take for example people with bipolar. People with bipolar score higher on creativity tests, yet lower on IQ tests. Why is that? Obviously there is more to success than IQ. Any idiot can see that. http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003110.html

Patents are also a poor proxy of creativity because patent laws vary from country to country, with the US (and the West in general) having some of the strictest patent laws in the planet. Plus, you can patent just about anything nowadays (even food recipes), hardly a good measure of creativity. This is why it is more important to measure what is being patented, as opposed to how much is patented. An Indian company had trouble bringing pills to the West due to complaints that the patent laws were too strict. http://www.pharmafocus.com/cda/focusH/1,21...-492876,00.html I will admit however, that Japan does impress me in its amount of creative innovation.

As a Jew myself, I am disturbed as the higher verbal IQ yet lower Spatial IQ as somehow meaning Jews don't excel in Math and science. (a rather unsubstantiated claim made by those who are filled with bitterness for Jews) They do excel in math and science, Jews use their verbal aptitude to exceed in both, as evident in the fact that Jews score higher on the Math SAT, and overrepresent in all the sciences and Nobel prize winners.



8.) Thirty percent of American Nobel prize winners in science and 25 percent of all American Nobel winners are Jewish.


So please, don't hate. No one is coming in here bashing Asians. http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/2979/rad...xpected-january

Part of the reason why there are fewer patents in Europe and US is because they are so expensive to maintain. (I'll go more into detail about that if asked) In Japan, patent costs are half that in the US, and in Europe they are 2 to 5 times more than the US. I am developing a software that I won't patent because it is too damn expensive. The loss in money is not worth the risk, since I can't test the idea. (we'll get more into that below)

In most countries, if an idea is different, it is patentable. Sega patented the arrow direction system in Crazy Taxi for crying out loud. There is a patent for a certain way to make buffalo wings. There are hundreds of video games each year that have original ideas, but no patents attached to them (far more original than Taxi's arrow) Why? The reason is because patents are expensive, and in the US and Europe, once an idea has been made public it can no longer be patented. Software designers aren't sure if their idea would be replicated, and since testing to the public means the idea is no longer patentable, they elect not to patent. The US has a system that deters people from obtaining patents for original ideas. Many, like me, feel the risk is not worth the reward. The risk of investing in the patent in Japan is less due to the fact that there is less damage to the owner if the property were not to sell. No wonder people file more patents there. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ve4GLlwQX...ive&f=false

In Europe, the cost of having a patent can run up to 100,000 euros. Tell me, how many here would risk investing in their idea for 100,000 dollars, without product and market response testing? I sure as hell wouldn't. If there was a patent for every new software idea I see, countries would have millions of patent grants. Actual patent grants are only a fraction of that, indicating that people are too scared to get a patent. The whole system is garbage.

i wouldnt question japans intuitiveness and creativity but when you say that they are unrivaled, why not consider their next door neighbors? china? taiwan? KOREA?!
i would say that one of the top innovative companies in japan is sony. they are directly rivaled by samsung in almost all aspects of technological advances. but samsung has yet to make a game console so the ps3 wins. but then we have the xbox360 (i forgot to mention america as a rival).
what say you?
@ Jagger
what are you talking about? how about sushi? judo? KA RA TE? ninjas? naruto? anime? female android? tentacle fetish? katana? tons of crap was invented by japan! and it is a very important part of many many people's lives. ps3? nintendo? mario? come one...
but i would have to argue that korea is a very great rival against japan (if we have not already surpassed the Japanese)...

Umm, I see what you are saying but I want to correct some things.

The first tentacle rape was in Evil Dead in 1981, an American movie. Plus, it is a fictional idea, not a physical invention. I guess the definitions of inventions have changed over time.

Ninjas may actually come from China. (Historically they dressed as common peasants. The black garb did not historically exist outside of fiction)

Most historians say the Katana evolved from the Zhan Ma Dao. There is a two-handed Dao in a museum that looks almost exactly like a katana. Plus, the katana is an innovation not an invention. It is a sword.

Female Android? That idea has been floating around in Sci-Fi for 80 years. Metropolis anyone?

I wouldn't call anime an invention since animation has been around forever. If we are saying "invention" is an artistic style, modern anime owes a lot of its origins to Tezuka, who was influenced by Hollywood storyboards and Fleischer studios, and Disney. Plus, when did film media become inventions? Are we going to consider Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs an invention too? After all, its influence on animation, american and japanese included, is unparalleled.

The Ps3 is no more an invention than the 360 or a Ford Focus. (try getting anyone to say xbox is an invention, lol). Now the Atari is an invention, since it was one of the first.

The rest you listed I can say are Japanese inventions.