"and in the world to come eternal life" - Industrial Power based on Unique Spirit

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Industrial Power based on Unique Spirit

Japan is a country with unique culture and modern industrial power backed by its unique spirit.

Engineers and scientists working in any Japanese businesses are subject to this condition.  But let's see there are so many companies in Japan where they are working so hard.


Ranking of Japanese Companies concerning Patent Assets:

No.       Company  
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1          Panasonic

2          Toshiba

3          Mitsubishi Electric

4          Toyota Motor

5          Canon

6          Sharp

7          Honda

8          Fujitsu

9         Denso

10       Ricoh

11       Hitachi

12       Fuji Film

13       NEC

14       Konica-Minoruta

15       Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal

16       Sony
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But what about a global landscape on patent power?

Ranking of Countries concerning Patents:

No.       Company         No. of Patents in Force
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1 United States 1,872,872

2 Japan 1,270,367

3 China 828,054

4 South Korea 624,419

5 United Kingdom 599,062

6 Germany                 509,879

7 France 438,926

8 Europe 268,384 (E.P.O.)

9 Hong Kong               227,918

10 Spain 166,079

11 Russia 147,067

12 Canada 121,889

13 Australia               107,708

14 Sweden 105,571

15 Belgium                 87,189 (2003)

16 Ireland                  78,761
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Then what about manpower and educational background?

World University Ranking of Engineering Schools 2009:

RANK	UNIVERSITY	COUNTRY	SCORES
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0
2	University of California, Berkeley	United States	93.9
3	Stanford University	United States	85.3
4	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	81.6
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	76.2
6	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	71.6
7	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	70.9
8	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	68.9
9	University of Tokyo	Japan	67.4
10	University of Toronto	Canada	66.0
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	64.5
12	Tsinghua University	China	63.4
13	Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	63.1
14	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	61.6
15	Princeton University	United States	61.5
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	61.4
17	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	60.4
18	McGill University	Canada	60.1
19	Harvard University	United States	59.6
20	University of Illinois	United States	58.4
21	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	57.0
22	Kyoto University	Japan	56.8

http://www.universityportal.net/2007/09/world-university-ranking-of-engineering.html

But it is not only genuine Americans that support the US industry and engineering sectors.

The Importance of Foreign-born Scientists and Engineers to the
Security of The United States
Statement of William A. Wulf, Ph.D.
President National Academy of Engineering
The National Academies
before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
for The Hearing on "Sources and Methods of Foreign Nationals Engaged in Economic and Military Espionage."
15 September 2005

...
Between 1980 and 2000, the percentage of Ph.D. scientists and engineers employed in the United States who were born abroad has increased from 24% to 37%. The current percentage of Ph.D. physicists is about 45%; for engineers, the figure is over 50%. One fourth of the engineering faculty members at U.S. universities were born abroad. Between 1990 and 2004, over one third of Nobel Prizes in the United States were awarded to foreign-born scientists. One third of all U.S. Ph.D.s in science and engineering are now awarded to foreign born graduate students. We have been skimming the best and brightest minds from across the globe, and prospering because of it; we need these new Americans even more now as other countries become more technologically capable.
...
After WW II, the U.S. forged a mutually reinforcing triad of complementary R&D strengths in industry, academia and government. However, U.S. industrial laboratories have greatly reduced their support for long-term basic research; and many U.S. corporations are shifting research and development to overseas locations—not just because foreign labor is cheaper, as is the common and comfortable myth, but because it is of higher quality! U.S. government laboratories are in various states of disarray, and no longer maintain the stature that they did in 1960's. Government support for the physical sciences and engineering at universities has declined in real terms, and is suffering further under present budget pressures – clearly, a strong research capability is not a current federal priority. Enrollment in the physical sciences and engineering, as a percentage of undergraduates, is among the lowest in the industrialized world – the U.S. now graduates just 7% of the world's engineers, for example. Given that our 12th graders score among the lowest in the world in science and mathematics, the ranks of U.S. born scientists and engineers are not likely to expand dramatically anytime soon. Our once strong triad of R&D capabilities is crumbling.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimony/Importance_of_Foreign_Scientists_and_Engineers_to_US.asp

Science and engineering are basic sources for modern wealth.  The US is now relying on foreign talents to develop and expand its material prosperity.  It can be thought that this situation has some analogy to that of the Roman Empire in its declining years.  Ancient Roman citizens and noblemen came to more and more rely on mercenary soldiers recruited in the north of the Alps.

Along with an increase of mercenary soldiers, soldiers of the Roman Empire lost the original spirit of the Romans.  They fought for money but not for glory of Rome and Romans.

But today, not only in the US, but also in Japan, power of money has overwhelmed morality of individual scientists and engineers.  Material development of the US should be guided by the American spirit which the God gave to Americans, namely some types of Christians, Judaists, and so on.  So, there must be serious conflict between the science/engineering sector and the spiritual/religious sector of the US.

In Japan, as long as the Japanese spiritualism is dominant among citizens which are the basic source of Japanese scientists and engineers, they will produce meaningful results.  

So, American uniqueness and Japanese uniqueness are so important for each country, since the Roman Empire fell when it lost its own uniqueness.



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Mar 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.