1. World Class Company – exhibition center tour – TOSHIBA 130th anniversary exhibition ⑤

TOKYO, Japan (AVING Special Report on 'World Class Brand in Japan') -- <Visual News> In the exhibition of TOSHIBA 130th anniversary, you may feel like riding a time machine in a sense. Visitors may find a bit of unusual harmony before the very first laundry machine, refrigerator and rice cooker displayed next to the products of sate-of-the-art digital device. They were the great inventions of the time launched by TOSHIBA, but it seems that they already became a kind of ‘antique’ items with regard to the light-speed development of technology today.

The first laundry machine in Japan was made of steel and weigh 157kg. It cost 720 yen (7,200 (KRW)). The first rice cooker in Japan was quite popular at that time enough to be sold about 150,000 items. In fact, it was just several decades ago.

Why don’t you go back to past for a moment, looking around the very first products in Japan with AVING photos?

(Picture: the first laundry machine ‘Solar’. It cost 370 yen(3,700(KRW))

(Picture: the first refrigerator in Japan made out of steel. 157 kg)

(Picture: the first rice cooker in Japan)

(Picture: TV, refrigerator, laundry machine in 1950s. TV and refrigerator cost 63,000 yen while the laundry machine 23,000 yen)

<AVING Special Report Team in Tokyo: Editor&Publisher, Kevin Choi, Phobe Kwon, Annie Park, Hyunok Kim, Jongmin Lee correspondents of AVING to Japan, edited by Daniel Sirh>