Household electrical appliances

...By 1970, it had grown rapidly and become huge, reaching about 21 trillion yen, about one-third the size of the United States and two to three times the size of Western European countries, and by 1980, the size of the United States was only about 1.3 times that of Japan, while that of Western Europe was only one-third to one-quarter the size of Japan. Looking at the details of this rapid growth and expansion of Japan's machinery industry after the war, in 1983, compared to 1955, while the total production of mining and manufacturing was 12 times, the total machinery industry was about 42 times, of which household electrical machinery was a whopping 258 times and automobiles, etc., 90 times, showing that the pace of expansion of mass-produced consumer goods machinery was by far the highest (see the entry on the automobile industry). Single-item production of capital goods machinery was 33 times. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "household electrical machinery" is listed below.

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…それが70年には約21兆円に急成長･巨大化し，アメリカの約3分の1，西欧諸国の2～3倍にも達し，80年にはアメリカは日本の1.3倍程度にすぎなくなり，西ヨーロッパのそれは日本の3分の1ないし4分の1の規模にすぎなくなった。　この戦後の日本の機械工業の急成長･巨大化の内容をみると，1955年にくらべ83年は，鉱工業総合生産が12倍であるなかで，機械工業合計で約42倍，そのうち家庭用電気機械は実に258倍，自動車等は90倍と，量産的消費財機械の拡大テンポはとび抜けて高い(〈自動車産業〉の項参照)。一品生産的な資本財機械は33倍である。…

※「家庭用電気機械」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。

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