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Slechts een paar voorbeelden uit Japan:
General anesthesia
Hanaoka Seishū was the first surgeon in the world who used the general anaesthesia in surgery, in 1804.
Portable electrocardiograph
Taro Takemi built the first portable electrocardiograph in 1937.
Esophagogastroduodenoscope
Mutsuo Sugiura was a Japanese engineer famous for being the first to develop a Gastro-camera (a present-day Esophagogastroduodenoscope).
Japanese typewriter
The first typewriter to be based on the Japanese writing system was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1929
KS steel
Magnetic resistant steel that is three times more resistant than tungsten steel, invented by Kotaro Honda
Compact Disc player
Sony released the world's first CD Player, called the CDP-101 in 1982, utilising a slide-out tray design for the Compact Disc.
Pocket calculator
The first portable calculators appeared in Japan in 1970, and were soon marketed around the world.
Videocassette recorder
The first machines (the VP-1100 videocassette player and the VO-1700 videocassette recorder) to use the first videocassette format, U-matic, was introduced by Sony in 1971.
Blu-ray Disc
After Shuji Nakamura's invention of practical blue laser diodes,[117] Sony started two projects applying the new diodes: UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and DVR Blue (together with Pioneer), a format of rewritable discs which would eventually become the Blu-ray Disc.
Compact Disc (also Netherlands company Philips)
The compact disc was jointly developed by Philips (Joop Sinjou) and Sony (Toshitada Doi).
Flash memory
Flash memory (both NOR and NAND types) was invented by Dr. Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba c. 1980
Quartz wristwatch
The world's first quartz wristwatch was revealed in 1967.
Flat panel display
The first flat-panel displays were the flat CRTs used by Sony in their Watchman series
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Drifting competition
In 1988, Keiichi Tsuchiya alongside Option magazine founder and chief editor Daijiro Inada organised the first contest specifically for sliding a car sideway.
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