Comments by "Miguel D Lewis" (@MiguelDLewis) on "Why Japan Could Rise Again as an Economic Super-Power" video.

  1.  @jb.9526  US is actually the world leader of automation. Second is UK. Japan imports robots from the US and UK.
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  2.  @hieronymusbutts7349  Japan doesn't export robots because it doesn't manufacture any robots of it's own. I used to live there and all the robots that were there were made in the US and UK. Japan relies on the West for its automation needs.
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  3.  @hieronymusbutts7349  That level of technological innovation requires immigrants. Elon Musk (Tesla) is from South Africa. Sergey Brin (Google) is from Russia. Steve Jobs (Apple) was from Syria. US has the most innovative technologies because we have more immigrants. Japan imports robots from the US and UK. If Japan wants technological innovations in automation, it'll need to let in the same percent of immigrants as the US.
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  4.  @るんるん-x6l  それを日本会議に言ってください🤣🤣
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  5.  @jb.9526  "As for research spending in the field of robotics, Japan is first worldwide, spending more than $930.5 million in 2022 alone. Regarding industrial robot manufacturing, Japan is also first, providing 45% of the global supply in 2021." When you specify industrial robot manufacturing, especially for cars, Japan definitely has an edge. I stand corrected there. But I'd love to see your source on this. Speaking from personal experience, when I was going to school in Japan in 2020, I never saw any company that specializes solely in industrial automation/robotics. You usually see companies with diverse manufacturing divisions which include industrial robotics, like Honda and Sony. My host father worked as a CAD specialist for robotics at Toyota, but his factory was turned into a Denso factory, which was also owned by Toyota at the time. That $950.5 million in investments might not be solely dedicated to industrial robotics but to diversified companies which also develop robotics. The same problem can be seen in US companies like Google, Apple, and Tesla which I mentioned previously. But it can't be seen in US companies like iRobot, Boston Dynamics, and Foster-Miller. It gets even more difficult if you consider that the US's most advanced robotics developer, Boston Dynamics, is largely owned by Korean conglomerate, Hyundai. The main robotics export that makes the US dominant over Japan is it's defense drone exports, not industrial robotics. US exports UAVs like the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper to countries all over the world, including Japan. The US invested $6.97 billion in 2018 to autonomous and semiautonomous drones with $3.3 billion of that going solely to R&D. That's over $2 billion dollars more than the entire Japanese investment of $950.5 million in 2022 that you mentioned.
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  6.  @Xentradi97  Japanese Yen is too devalued to buy immigrant led robotics firms in the US. Japan and Korea just basically copy the phones, computers, cars, and refrigerators that the US invented. They haven't contributed anything new. Their industries are based on imitation and reverse engineering, not innovation. The US hosts the most immigrants in the world and all of it's major innovations that the rest of the world copies were invented by immigrants. It's no coincidence that the global leader in robotics is also the global leader in immigration. Not many people know this but America's most famous inventor, Steve Jobs, was the child of a Syrian refugee.
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  7.  @8us6o3uswdajj3  That may be true for manufacturing but that's just copying US technology. Japan has contributed no innovations to robotics. Not since the 90s anyway.
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  8.  @8us6o3uswdajj3  Not innovative enough for mass production. Toyota and Honda's automation seems to just copy innovations created by Ford and GM. Japan seeks global competitiveness but does not seek global talent.
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  9.  @燻  AI will not save Japan from it's idolatry and degeneracy. Only Jesus can do that.
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  10.  @tz7710  As I said previously, that's partially true except for on the defense side.
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  11.  @secrets.295  That goes without saying.
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  12. ​ @gordonbgraham  I used to live in Japan too. But let's assume you're right. Let's assume that Japan is actually the global leader in automation in all sectors, has the most innovative robotics technologies, and will benefit in the longrun because automation will help it's dying population. If all of this is true, why is Kishida panicking about the dying population? And what will cause the Japanese population to stabilize, as opposed to decline toward extinction like it's doing now?
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  13.  @gordonbgraham  That doesn't answer the questions. Why is Kishida panicking about the dying population? And what will cause the Japanese population to stabilize, as opposed to decline toward extinction like it's doing now? In other words, how will automation get the Japanese birth rate up to the 2.1 replacement level and stabilize the population?
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  14.  @gordonbgraham  So basically, the octogenarians have to die and then Japanese couples will automatically go from having 1.35 babies to 2.1 babies? Is that what you're saying?
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  15.  @chillaxter13  You joke but the Japanese Empire dominated the East until we nuked them. 🔫🗽🦅
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