How powerful was Japan in the 1980s, Only the export of machine tools has affected the whole world

If any nation is deprived of industry and becomes a mere collection of peasants, it cannot keep pace with other nations in civilization. - Engels

A nation's spiritual outlook, civilization, social structure, and behavior patterns that policy may lead to, all of which are recorded in its financial history. Those who understand how to read the information contained in this history can feel the world shaking thunder more clearly than anywhere else.

In 1939, the Second World War broke out. As one of the three major fascist Axis powers, Japan carried out military aggression against Asian countries in the 1940s. The bloody means of Japanese army were appalling, and everywhere they went, they were filled with grief.

In 1945, after two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, Japan signed the surrender letter, and the World War II ended. Japan has a small territory and insufficient resources. Successive wars have greatly consumed the government's financial resources. After the war, Japan was hit by the military and economic aspects of western countries, and its industrial development has become slow.

On March 12, 1947, the United States introduced Truman Doctrine, and the cold war which lasted more than 40 years officially began. With the United States and the Soviet Union as the main camps, the two countries and their allies launched mutual confrontation and mutual containment in economy, military, science and technology, diplomacy and other aspects without starting a war, which is called the "cold war".

As the Soviet Union controlled the four northern islands of Japan and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula after the war, in order to contain the Soviet Union, the United States and its allies began to vigorously support Japan, and in terms of industrial development, advanced machine tool technology was taught to Japan.

The Japanese government also understands the importance of developed industry, so it has made the development of machine tool industry the top priority of economic development, which makes Japan the third country in the world to establish a strong country relying on industrialization after the United States and Germany.

In 1889, Japan produced its first machine tool. Since then, the machine tool industry technology has become more and more mature. Due to the emphasis on personnel training, the exploration of scientific and advanced management mode, the creation of high-quality products, and the pursuit of technological innovation, Japan's machine tool technology has reached the world-class level in a short period of more than ten years, and Japan began to rise.

Watanabe fair once said that the emergence of machine industry is one of the indispensable elements of modern capitalism. At the beginning of the rise of Japanese machine tool industry, the government gave great support in all aspects.

From the middle and late 1950s to the 1970s, the Japanese government not only invested a lot of Finance for the machine tool industry, which laid a good economic foundation for its rapid development; at the same time, it also provided a strong guarantee in terms of system, and successively issued the "machine vibration law", "electromechanical law" and "machine information law". The Japanese machine tool industry has developed for nearly 30 years after the war.

In the 1980s ushered in the golden age, Japan became the world's largest machine tool production, the largest production. In fact, from the 1960s, Japan's economy gradually recovered. In the 1980s, Japan even surpassed European countries and became the world's second largest economic power after the United States, creating a miracle in the world economic history.

How powerful was Japan in the 1980s? According to statistics, in 1985, Japan's fiscal savings and foreign exchange reserves totaled 54.5 billion US dollars, ranking first in the world. Its net foreign output was 129.8 billion US dollars. The export of machine tools alone has affected the whole world. At this time, the US foreign debt was 111.4 billion US dollars.

At that time, Japan almost developed in science, education, culture and health. Due to sufficient finance, the Japanese government began to focus on the development of public utilities, and established the most complete and largest high-speed rail and highway network in the world at that time. And all this, all with the export machine tool is indispensable.

In 1939, Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. and Zhipu production Institute merged to establish Tokyo Zhipu Electric Co., Ltd., which is now known as Toshiba Corporation (renamed in 1984). The business scope of Toshiba group is wide, covering almost all aspects of production and life: digital products, electronic components, social infrastructure construction, household appliances, etc.

From the launch of Japan's earliest washing machine, refrigerator and other household electrical products, to the development of the world's first notebook computer, research and manufacture of new sed display screen, Toshiba has created many "world's first" in innovation. At the same time, it plays an important role in semiconductor manufacturing and integrated electromechanical manufacturing.

In the 1980s, the United States led the whole world in Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union. The US led camp adopted a technical blockade against the Soviet Union and did not allow technical exchanges with the Soviet Union. As an ally of the United States in the cold war, Japan could not openly export machine tools to the Soviet Union. However, in 1983, Toshiba privately sold high-tech products such as large milling machines to the Soviet Union.

How advanced are the machine tools produced by Toshiba group? The propeller noise of the nuclear submarine produced by this machine tool is very low, and it is not easy to be found by the enemy. At that time, only Japan had mastered this advanced technology. For the Soviet Union, a military power, it was very important to introduce advanced machine tools in order to compete with the United States in the maritime arms race.

Build a plank road in the open and cross the old warehouse in secret. Since we can't cooperate with Japan openly, how can Russia buy these advanced machine tools? At that time, the machinery company of Toshiba group of Japan, in violation of the ban of batumis, secretly cooperated with Kongsberg company of Norway to transport the high-precision machine tools ordered by the Soviet Union from Japan to Norway, and then secretly from Norway

Translated by Robots