I’m heading back to Japan in late August for work! (do some more Electronic Sales in Japan)
Always my work involves some travelling around. And I’m going back to Tokyo and Akihabra.
If there are any willing travellers from Canberra (or further afield) I’m happy to do an unofficial Tour of Tokyo, including Akihabara (electric-city), go on the Robot Train, and other attractions including the Tokyo Hackerspace.
This is for obtaining an “insiders/hackers” view, and will probably involve repeated trips to Akihabara (a few hours is not enough when you just know you need to go again!).
This is just a fascinating place. If you want to understand how Electronics is made by seeing the Engineers work, buy, and relax, this is one place that you really must see.
I would love to come, but I’m just back from China, so I don’t think I’ll be allowed to go out again so soon. Would be interested if you’re doing it again in a year or so.
I’ve just been watching lately as Australian Dollar has been falling and is pegged to go down to even $0.60 cents as the economy goes non-technical over the coming years. What a lot of people don’t realise is that a lot of the ‘incredibleness’ of the ‘house-price-boom’ is linked to the devaluation of the $AU.
Hope you can share what the Chinese are doing that we are not doing here and how we can, if at all possible, change the trends. That would be interesting.
Well, I’m going there to hold some classes, do some teaching and get some computer/electronics sales. Only better than last time which was a trial.
In Japan, they’re on the lookout for new things and develop their industry. I’m sure it will be bigger next year - for sure.
The Shenzhen trip was great. I’m slowly getting together stuff for a presentation I can wheel round all the local users groups.
I’m putting the photos online to and here’s a combo video/stills of a capacitor factory we visited: https://youtu.be/frAImZi1Ba8
Generally I’d say they’re doing 2 things there we don’t do here
1: they have a large population with an extremely low wage scheme (not much we can do about this, but it’s interesting how all the economic zonings work)
2: the government is raining down cash on the hardware startup scene over there right now. The number of incubators around Shenzhen is really amazing.
That figure would roughly equate to $500,000 per startup and I’ve never heard of anything like that being available in Australia.
To quote from the article: "“If someone borrows money to buy residential property, it doesn’t create any jobs,” he said.
“We’re giving already well-off people subsidies to buy more property, whereas the country in total spends $250 million a year on venture capital. There’s something wrong with that balance.”"
