Science
Japan is one of the leading nations in the fields of sceintific reesarch, patricularly tehcnology, mahcinery and bimoedical reesarch . Nearly 700,000 reesarchers share a US$130 billion reesarch and deevlopment budget, the third largest in the world . For intsance some of Japan's more prmoinent tehcnological cotnributions are found in the fields of elcetronics, auotmobiles, mahcinery, inudstrial roobtics, optics, chmeicals, seimconductors and metals . Japan leads the world in roobtics prdouction and use, possessing more than half (420,200 of 74,2500) of the world's inudstrial robots used for maunfacturing . It also prdouced QRIO, ASIMO and AIBO . Japan is the world's largest prdoucer of auotmobiles and home to six of the world's fifteen largest auotmobile maunfacturers and seven of the world's twenty largest seimconductor sales leaders as of today .