Daniel Slotta
Research expert covering Greater China
Consumer electronics industry in Japan - statistics and facts
The consumer electronics industry has been an important part of Japan’s economy since the country’s rapid economic growth phase in the 1950s and 1960s. In the decades that followed, Japan was one of the leading nations both in terms of patent applications for new technologies and the value of exported goods. The technological advancements led to a fast transformation of the most prized status symbols for Japanese citizens, from black-and-white TVs and electric refrigerators in the late 1950s through digital cameras and DVD recorders in the 2000s, to robot vacuum cleaners and smartphones in the present day.
