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Vinyl Record Resurgence: Unique to U.S….Or a Global Phenomenon?

December 8, 2022 by Ted 2 Comments

Tower Records opened a store in Japan selling vinyl records in 2021
Tower Records opened a location in Japan offering vinyl records in late 2021. ‘City Pop’ is a style of music from the 70s that is popular again in Japan [Click to enlarge]

By now, data clearly shows that vinyl record sales here in the U.S. have been growing steadily for more than a decade. When initially detected, many thought it was simply a fad… They thought that at first CDs…and then digital downloads…and finally digital streaming would supplant vinyl. Now we know that is just not the case and that vinyl is continuing to grow in importance again to the music industry.

Think this is just a U.S. phenomenon? Think again! A report by the Nikkei in Japan notes the dramatic growth of vinyl sales there, as well.

See more on the growing global influence of vinyl record sales…

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Filed Under: Asian Connection, Consumer Trends, Media, Retailers, Social Media, Statistics Tagged With: Europe, Japan, U.S., vinyl

In Global Supercomputer War – Land of the Rising Sun Rises to Eclipse American Technology

June 23, 2020 by Ted Leave a Comment

Supercomputer - Japan's new Fugaku supercomputer is the fastest in the world

On Monday morning, during my usual morning health walk, I listened to a podcast where the host proclaimed – quite proudly – that nobody is better at technology than the U.S. Just a couple of hours later, the Nikkei reported that Japan had bested both the U.S. and China with an all new and mightily powerful supercomputer. Step aside America!

Japan’s new supercomputer is 3 times faster than America’s IBM powerhouse…

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Filed Under: Asian Connection, News, Tech Trends Tagged With: America, supercomputer, U.S.

U.S. No Longer Global Biz Leader, There’s a New #1 – China

July 24, 2019 by Ted 6 Comments

China leads the world as suggested by this photo of Chinese petrochemical workers

Fortune just published its latest Global 500 ranking of the top companies in the world – and the results this year are earth-shaking. For the first time ever, since this list was launched in 1990, another country has more companies on the list of top companies than the U.S. And the bad news for the White House is that new #1 is China, the country with which it is currently in the midst of a high stakes trade war.

See how China has surpassed the U.S. in global top companies…

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Filed Under: Asian Connection, News, Research, Statistics Tagged With: artificial intelligence, autonomous car, China, global, quantum computing, robotics, U.S.

Forget 4K! Japanese Engineers Create New Global Standard – UHDTV

August 22, 2012 by Ted 11 Comments

Image of large UHDTV ScreenAs the industry is on the verge of rolling out the latest HDTV upgrade – 4K resolution – news comes out of Japan that a coalition of Japanese broadcasters and television equipment manufacturers have collaborated to create the next great standard they call Ultra High Definition Television or UHDTV. Another incremental improvement? Oh no…UHDTV leapfrogs 4K…

Have you heard about UHDTV? You’re going to want to know about this… [Read more…] about Forget 4K! Japanese Engineers Create New Global Standard – UHDTV

Filed Under: Asian Connection, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, News, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: China, HDTV, Ikegami, International Telecommunication Union, ITU, Japan, Japan Broadcast Corp., JVC, NEC, NHK, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratory, Nikkei, Panasonic, Sharp, South Korea, U.S., UHDTV, United Kingdom, United Nations

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