Home Electricity Boom

Japanese: 家庭電化ブーム - かていでんかぶーむ
Home Electricity Boom

...Television sets were domestically produced in 1952. After that, the demand for new products increased one after another, from black-and-white televisions to color televisions, and electric refrigerators, electric washing machines, vacuum cleaners, electric rice cookers, etc., and a boom in home electrification began. In 1980, Hayakawa Electric Industry (now Sharp) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. were leading the way in television production, while heavy electrical equipment companies such as Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, and Hitachi lagged behind. However, after that, the three heavy electrical equipment companies, except for Fuji Electric Manufacturing, actively entered the home appliance field. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "home electrification boom" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…なおテレビ受像機は1952年に国産化されている。その後,白黒テレビからカラーテレビへ,電気冷蔵庫,電気洗濯機,電気掃除機,電気釜等々,つぎつぎと新たな製品の需要が増大し,家庭電化ブームが発生した。55年当時のテレビ生産は早川電機工業(現,シャープ),松下電器産業の2社が大きくリードし,東芝,三菱電機,日立製作所等重電各社は遅れをとっていたが,それ以降,富士電機製造を除く重電3社は家電の分野に積極的に参入した。…

※「家庭電化ブーム」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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