When talking about Japan, many Netizens in China are very fond of ridiculing that Japan is a country that is keen on "gambling on national fortunes", and Japan has entered the fast lane of development after the Meiji Restoration, and its comprehensive strength has increased rapidly. However, what accompanied it was Japan's wolf ambitions of actively invading and expanding abroad and vainly trying to dominate Asia; driven by this idea, Japan seized a large number of benefits through the victories in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, two "gamble on the fortunes of the country," and became a veritable hegemon of East Asia. However, the blind superstition of "gambling on the fortunes of the country" also made it more and more crazy in the Second World War, and finally spit out the results of aggression accumulated over the years.
After the end of World War II, Japan still inherited the national character of "gambling on the fortunes of the country". Japan has invested a lot of capital in many emerging industries such as liquid crystals, photovoltaics, semiconductors, and automobiles in the post-war industrial development plan, and has achieved the world's top technology in many technologies in these fields, which has greatly promoted Japan's post-war economic recovery. For example, the Japanese car "Two Fields" that we are familiar with, that is, Toyota and Honda, have attacked cities in various markets around the world, and their sales are far ahead.
However, in recent years, the development of many industries that Japan was once proud of has lagged behind, and it has gradually lost its voice in markets such as new energy vehicles, and Japan is losing the battle of national fortune in the tide of industrial change in this new era.
New energy vehicles have become a new "outlet"
At present, the concept of environmental protection is highly valued, which has brought a new trend to the development of the automotive industry, and its important symbol is that new energy vehicles are gradually replacing traditional fuel vehicles. Tesla, the most famous new energy vehicle brand in the United States, has been popular all over the world in recent years, and Shanghai has also specially introduced Tesla Gigafactory. China's new energy automobile industry is also booming, the rise of BYD, Xiaopeng, Weilai, ideal and many other new energy vehicle brands often appear on the Internet hot search, there is a hidden trend of a hundred flowers blooming, a hundred schools of contention. According to the statistics of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, even under the influence of the global epidemic and economic downturn, China's new energy vehicle sales have exceeded 3.5 million, and China's new energy vehicle sales have been the best in the world for seven consecutive years.
The loneliness of Japanese new energy vehicles
In sharp contrast to the booming new energy vehicle industry in China and the United States and other countries, Japanese cars are almost invisible in the new energy vehicle market. According to relevant data, there is no Japanese car brand in the top ten of China's new energy vehicle sales list in 2021.
However, what may surprise many people is that Toyota has launched oil-electric hybrid vehicles as early as twenty years ago. Japanese car companies, represented by Toyota, have almost monopolized the technology patents for gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles. Japan's new energy vehicles, which were once far ahead, are now in a difficult situation to find, which is lamentable.
Many industries are in decline
New energy vehicles are just a microcosm of the fact that Japan's industrial development cannot keep up with the rhythm of the times, in addition, Japan once occupied a dominant position in semiconductor, photovoltaic, liquid crystal and other industries, but now it has become a yellow flower, and has been far behind China and South Korea. Even to Chinese's disbelief, Japan, as a developed country, is still using outdated fax machines, while the Internet industry in China and the United States has become highly developed. But the two-dimensional code that can be seen everywhere on the streets of China actually originated in Japan.
Why is Japan lagging behind in the wave of industrial change in the new era?
From the above analysis, it can be seen that Japan has been completely defeated in this round of industrial development in the battle of national fortune, and why Japan, which once had a rapid momentum of scientific and technological development, has stagnated, which has aroused the curiosity of many people.
After in-depth analysis, relevant experts pointed out that this is closely related to Japan's mentality as an island country isolated overseas. After Japan achieved a leading position in industrial development, it fixed its own set of standards and gradually tended to be closed, which also reminded China that it must increase its opening up to the outside world.