Chapter 423 Brain Hole Contest
At the 1985 Tsukuba World Expo, Crown Prince Akihito served as honorary president and Toshio Doko served as chairman.
He is not only old, but also has rich experience. He has served as the president and chairman of Toshiba, and has been the chairman of the Keidanren for six consecutive terms.
In 1981, it accepted the commission from the cabinet and began to carry out economic reforms in a series of state-owned institutions.
As someone who lived through the Meiji era, he has many medals of various kinds.
Facing a man who is nearly ninety years old, Baichuan Feng also behaved very humbly.
There's nothing he can do about it. Maybe he has experienced more hardships than he has eaten.
In Japan, seniority is the best proof of identity, no matter how rich a person is.
At the main library, Shirakawa Kaede also met Ibuka Masaru, one of the founders of Sony.
"Mr. Shirakawa, your SIC is truly astonishing."
The first time Ibuka Masaru met Shirakawa Kaede , he praised SIC's achievements.
According to the latest research report, SIC has become the seventh largest semiconductor company in Japan.
As the only company whose core business is processor chips, SIC does not have its own wafer fab.
But it can stand out among a number of big DRAM chips, which shows how strong its technology is.
"Mr. Ibuka, when it comes to the semiconductor field, you and Sony are the pioneers of Japan."
Shirakawa Kaede knew why Ibuka Masaru didn't mention Shirakawa Electric, but instead attached great importance to SIC.
The reason was that the transistor radio he developed at Sony introduced the first spark of semiconductors to Japan.
In terms of qualifications, he is indeed the pioneer of Neon Semiconductor.
"The past is nothing, the future belongs to you young people."
Ibuka Masaru looked at the thriving scene of the World Expo outside and sighed inwardly.
He is old and not in good health . If it weren't for the World Expo, he would hardly go out.
But everything he saw on this trip made him realize that he was old.
The future will surely belong to those brilliant younger generations, like the one in front of us.
"Let's go. Don't keep our colleagues waiting for too long."
"Please come in," Baichuan Feng bowed politely.
He is the youngest among the group today.
Look who is in this room, Inayama Masahiro, who has worked in the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Railways, the Bank of Japan, and Mitsubishi Bank.
Sony founder Masaru Ibuka, Mitsui Group's key figure Hideo Edo, and Nissan Motor's revival master Kawamata Katsuji.
Other figures such as the Chairman of Tokyu Corporation, the Chairman of NEC Corporation, and the Chairman of Honda were also present.
They are all vice presidents of this World Expo, and Shirakawa Kaede is one of them.
That’s right, as the founder of white goods and the actual controller of Shirakawa Holdings with a market value of over US$10 billion, Shirakawa Feng also got the title of vice president.
After all the guests from 48 countries entered the venue in the morning, Shirakawa Kaede followed Crown Prince Akihito and others to attend the opening ceremony of the World Expo.
After the latter delivered a speech and announced the official start of this International Science and Technology Expo, Shirakawa Kaede and Ibuka Masaru were responsible for receiving guests from other overseas countries.
It's called reception, but in fact it just means accompanying them to visit the various pavilions of the Expo, and then doing the part-time job of explaining them.
The entire official visiting group consists of nearly a hundred people, and the team is very large.
It is impossible to visit hundreds of exhibition halls one by one, so we can only choose some representative ones.
For the World Expo, of course we choose pavilions that are high in technology and stunning enough to represent it.
For example, the Hitachi Pavilion, the Sony Pavilion, the Toshiba Pavilion, and the Shirakawa Pavilion.
That’s right, Shirakawa-kan of Shirakawa Electric is also within the scope of the official group’s visit.
Everyone slowly visited the buildings one by one from far to near, and because it was an official group, even Akihito's father came to lick the emperor.
As one of the accompanying personnel, Shirakawa Kaede was surrounded by a large number of official reporters.
Some of them are from Japan, and some are from abroad.
Honestly speaking, such a grand ceremony made Baichuan Feng feel a little uncomfortable.
Fortunately, everyone's attention was focused on the exhibition hall, which was the focus of the cameras.
Of course, the World Expo does have a lot of gimmicks, and almost every company has its own creative products.
For example, the Hitachi Pavilion is shaped like a hat, and the area with the largest number of visitors is the industrial robot exhibition area.
Under the command of a fixed program, they are carving various animals such as "elephants", "lions", "sheep", etc. on the ice.
This magical scene attracted a lot of applause and cheers from the audience. After all, it was 1985 and ordinary people had never seen such a high-tech product.
The red Toshiba Pavilion is a glowing beacon, and inside there is a giant screen showing scanned movies.
Compared with the small screen in the cinema, this huge screen that is dozens of meters long is an eye-opener for everyone.
The Sony and Panasonic pavilions that followed also had similar display sessions, and everyone was showing off their strengths.
After a round of walking, we finally arrived at the white and blue Shirakawa-kan. Its appearance is like a smaller version of the Shirakawa Building, except that its tilt angle and geometric beauty are more sci-fi.
Since it was their own exhibition hall, Shirakawa Feng naturally started to act as the commentator.
As soon as they entered the exhibition hall, the visiting group heard exclamations.
The curious crowd couldn't help but quicken their pace. The first thing that caught their eyes when they entered the exhibition hall was a giant hanging LCD screen.
A rough estimate shows that this LCD screen is over 120 inches, but what makes everyone exclaim is not how big the screen is.
It's the high-definition color picture displayed on the LCD screen and its ultra-thin size.
People all over the world are watching big-ass CTR monitors, which are limited in size and resolution.
But who has ever seen such a big and ultra-thin TV that is less than the width of a finger joint?
The most important thing is the clarity and color. Everyone couldn't believe their eyes.
At that time, there was no concept of 2K or 4K, but with Shirakawa Electric's frame-by-frame processing, the clarity of each image still exceeded that of later 4K.
It is well deserved to say that this screen is the largest and highest-definition LCD screen in the world.
“This is the latest masterpiece of Shirakawa Electric’s display technology, which we call OLED.
There are nearly 10 million pixels and the refresh rate exceeds 120Hz.
Visually, it has reached the highest level in the world.”
Shirakawa Kaede certainly has the confidence to say this, as it took Shirakawa Electric a whole year to make this screen.
Not to mention how many times it failed in the process, the total cost alone exceeded 1.6 billion yen.
The ultra-clear images playing on the screen at this moment are aerial photos and night views of Tokyo. It cost more than 100 million yen to process each frame of the images.
With such a huge investment, the results are of course shocking.
This was the first time that the world saw the advent of LCD televisions, and in many countries televisions were not yet popular.
At this moment, when they saw the OLED screen in Shirakawa-kan, it was like looking at alien technology.
Not to mention the representatives from other countries who opened their mouths wide, even Akihito's father stood for a long time before coming to his senses.
"Will televisions be like this in the future?" The surprise in Yu Ren's eyes attracted a large number of media flash cameras.
"Of course," Baichuan Feng nodded without hesitation, "This year we will launch a 14-inch color LCD TV, and larger sizes are inevitable in the future."
Hirohito nodded and said nothing. After visiting the place, he did not leave immediately, but was attracted by the sound of piano.
In the electronics display area, Shirakawa Electric also has its own robots on display.
But this robot is a little special. It is almost life-size and is sitting in front of the piano playing Bach's piano music.
Those nimble fingers and the humanized expression shown on the color LCD screen on his face amazed everyone.
Soon after the song was over, the robot stood up and bowed in a very human way.
"Hello, Your Majesty the Licking Emperor, welcome to Shirakawa-kan."
"Hey, hey! Hey?!" A series of exclamations sounded .
Yuto also showed a surprised look on his face, "You can speak?"
"Of course, robots are people too."
"Aso (Yeah)" Yuto responded with a smile.
Click, click, a large number of flash lights lit up again.
"So what's your name?" Hirohito asked again, rarely smiling.
"I am the robot Wall-E!" The screen on his face showed a cute cartoon smiley face symbol.
Yuto turned his head and looked at Shirakawa Kaede beside him and nodded slightly, "That's amazing."
After saying that, he led the tour group to the next exhibition hall. There were still several planned pavilions that he needed to visit in person.
However, although the official visiting group left, the flow of ordinary exhibitors slowly began to gather at the Shirakawa-kan.
The giant, ultra-thin paper TV and the robot that can play the piano and talk have begun to spread the legend of Shirakawa-kan in the exhibition area.
The robot looks intelligent, but that’s only because its language library is filled with most everyday conversations.
In addition, there is a CCD image sensor on the robot's head, and the portraits of important people have been pre-loaded into it.
For people like Yuto, the object can be identified with just a scan of the camera.
That's why the Wall-E robot was able to take the initiative to say hello to him. Of course, no one else knew about this.
In everyone's eyes, Shirakawa Electric's robots are so powerful that they can chat just like real people.
Isn't the World Expo all about seeing who has the biggest imagination?
Baichuan Feng is quite confident about this.
In addition to these, Shirakawa-kan also has wireless portable phones that are similar to later mobile phones. They are much more advanced than NTT's shoulder phones that weigh several kilograms.
A base station has been set up on site, and everyone can make calls throughout the Expo Park by simply dialing a fixed number on the phone.
There are also ultra-thin laptops made with TFT screens, which once again broke people's perception of computers.
In short, everything in Shirakawa-kan is an eye-opener for visiting guests.
This is the real future world, this is the sci-fi environment where people will live in the future.
After this World Expo, the name of Shirakawa Electric will surely become famous throughout the world.
However, as the host, Shirakawa Kaede didn't have time to enjoy some private time until he had finished accompanying the official tour group.
On the way back with Tanaka Yuko and the others, Shirakawa Feng suddenly saw a unique exhibition hall - the Chinese Pavilion.
Hmm? Someone from my hometown is coming?
Baichuan Feng was shocked and decided to go and take a look.
