At the 1985 Tsukuba World Expo, Prince Akihito served as honorary president and Toshio Tsuchimitsu as chairman.

This one is not only old, but also has deep qualifications. He served as president and president of Toshiba, and was re-elected as president of Keidanren for six consecutive terms.

In '81, he was commissioned by the cabinet to carry out economic reforms of a series of state-owned institutions.

As a person who came from the Meiji era, he has several medals on his body.

Facing him at the age of nearly ninety, Shirakawa Kaede also behaved very humbly.

There is no way, the wind and rain experienced by others may be more than the food he eats.

Seniority in Neon is the best proof of identity, even if he has money, it is not easy to make it.

Here at the main building, Shirakawa Kaede also met Dai Ibuka, one of the founders of Sony.

"Shirakawa-san, Your Excellency's SIC is really surprising."

The first thing Ibuka saw when he saw Kaede Shirakawa was to praise the achievements of SIC.

According to the latest research report, SIC has become the seventh largest semiconductor company in Neon.

As the only company with processor chips as its core business, SIC does not have its own fab.

But it can stand out from the crowd of DRAM chip giants, which shows how hard its technology is.

"Izuka-san, to say that in the field of semiconductors, you and Sony are the pioneers of neon."

Shirakawa Kaede knows why Izuka doesn't mention Shirakawa Electric, but attaches great importance to SIC.

The reason for this is that the transistor radio he developed at Sony introduced the first spark to neon semiconductors.

In terms of qualifications, he is indeed the guide of Neon Semiconductor.

"The past is nothing, the future belongs to you young people."

Jing Shenda looked at the thriving scene of the World Expo outside and secretly sighed.

He is old and not in good health, and if it weren't for the World Expo, he would not have come out and walked around.

But everything he saw on this trip made him realize that he was old.

The future will definitely belong to those wonderful juniors, such as the one in front of you.

"Let's go, don't make you colleagues wait for a long time."

"You please," Shirakawa Kaede bowed.

He is the youngest of today's group.

Look at who is in this room, Inayama Gakuan, who has worked in the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Railways, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of Mitsubishi.

Sony's founder, Dai Izukami, the key figure of the Mitsui Group, Edo Hero, and Nissan's ZTE ancestor Katsuji Kawa.

Other figures, such as Chairman Tokyu, Chairman NEC, and Chairman Honda, were also present.

They are all vice presidents of this World Expo, and Kaede Shirakawa is also one of them.

That's right, with the founder of White Electric Appliances and the actual controller of Shirakawa Holdings, which has a market value of more than $10 billion, Shirakawa Kaede also earned the title of vice president.

In the morning, after all the guests from all 48 countries entered, Shirakawa Kaede followed Prince Akihito and they attended the opening ceremony of the World Expo.

After the latter gave a speech and announced the official opening of this International Science and Technology Expo, Kaede Shirakawa and Dai Ibuka were responsible for receiving guests from other countries overseas.

Saying that it is a reception is actually to accompany them to visit the pavilions of the World Expo, and then work part-time to explain.

There are nearly 100 official visiting groups, and the team is very large.

It is impossible to visit all the hundreds of pavilions, so you can only choose a few representatives.

World Expo, of course, choose a high-tech enough stunning pavilion as a representative.

For example, Hitachi, Sony, Toshiba, and Shirakawa.

That's right, Shirakawa Electric's Shirakawa Pavilion is also within the scope of official groups.

Everyone slowly walked down one by one from far and near, because it was the official group, and even Akihito's Lao Tzu Licking Emperor also came.

As one of the entourage, Shirakawa Kaede gathered a large number of official reporters around him.

Some of them are from neon, some are from abroad.

To be honest, such a big pomp made Shirakawa Kaede a little uncomfortable.

But fortunately, everyone's eyes are focused on the exhibition hall, which is the focus of the cameras.

Of course, the expo does have a lot of gimmicks, and almost every one of them has its own brain-hole product.

For example, the shape of the Hitachi Pavilion is like a hat, and the area with the largest number of visitors is the industrial robot exhibition area.

Under the command of the stationary program, they are carving various animals such as "elephants", "lions", "sheep" and others on the ice.

This magical side attracted a large number of audience applause, after all, it is 85 years, ordinary people have never seen such high-tech products.

The red Toshiba Pavilion is a lighthouse that glows, and inside there are scanned movies on a huge screen.

Compared with the small screen in the theater, this huge screen dozens of meters long can be regarded as an eye-opener for everyone.

The next Sony and Panasonic pavilions also have similar display links, and everyone is showing their strengths.

After turning around, I finally came to the white and blue Shirakawa Building, which looks like a miniature version of the Shirakawa Building, but it is more sci-fi in terms of inclination angle and geometric beauty.

Since it is his own exhibition hall, Shirakawa Kaede also began to be a commentator.

As soon as they entered the interior of the exhibition hall, the visiting group heard one exclamation after another.

The curious people couldn't help but speed up their pace slightly, and the first thing that caught their eyes when they entered the exhibition hall was a huge LCD screen hanging up.

A rough estimate of this LCD screen is more than 120 inches, but what makes everyone marvel is not how big the screen is.

It's the high-definition color picture displayed on the LCD screen at the moment, and the ultra-thin size.

People all over the world are looking at CTR monitors with big butts, and that's just the limited size and definition.

But who has ever seen such a large, thin TV set less than a knuckle width?

The most important thing is the clarity and color, and everyone can't believe their eyes.

At this time, there was no concept of 2K and 4K, but under the frame-by-frame processing of Shirakawa Electric, the face clarity still exceeded that of 4K in later generations.

It is well deserved to say that this screen is the largest and highest-definition LCD screen in the world.

"This is the latest masterpiece of Shirakawa Electric's display technology, and we call it OLED.

There are nearly 10 million pixels and a refresh rate of over 120Hz.

Visually, it has now reached the highest level in the world. ”

Of course, Shirakawa Kaede has the confidence to say this, and it took Shirakawa Electric a year to make this screen before and after.

Not to mention the number of failures in between, the total cost alone exceeded 1.6 billion yen.

At this moment, the ultra-clear images on the screen are aerial and night images of Tokyo, and it took more than 100 million yen to process each frame.

With such a large investment, the effect is certainly shocking.

This is the first time that people in the world have seen the advent of LCD TV, and many countries have not even popularized televisions.

At this moment, when they saw the OLED screen in the Shirakawa Pavilion, it was like watching alien technology.

Not to mention the representatives of other countries who opened their mouths wide, even Akihito's Lao Tzu stopped in front of the screen for a long time before coming back to his senses.

"Will the TV of the future become like this?" The look of surprise in Yuto's eyes attracted a large number of flashing lights in the media.

"Of course," Shirakawa Kaede nodded without hesitation, "This year we will launch a 14-inch color LCD screen TV, and a larger size will be inevitable in the future." ”

Hirohito nodded and said nothing, he did not leave immediately after visiting the place, but was attracted by the sound of the piano.

In the electronics display area, Shirakawa Electric also has its own robot on display.

But there is something special about this robot, he is about the same size as he is sitting at the piano and playing Bach's piano music.

The flexible fingers, as well as the humanized expression presented by a color LCD screen on the face, all amazed everyone.

Soon after the song was played, the robot actually stood up and bowed very humanely.

"Hello, Your Majesty, welcome to the Shirakawa Pavilion."

"Eh, eh! Huh?! A series of exclamations rang out all around.

Yuto also had a look of surprise on his face, "You can speak?" ”

"Of course, robots are also human."

"Aso (yes)," Yuto replied with a smile.

Click, click, and the swath of the flash came on again.

"And what's your name?" Hirohito, who rarely showed a smile, asked again.

"I'm WALL-E the robot!" The screen on the face reveals a cute cartoon smiley face symbol.

Yuto turned his head to look at Shirakawa Kaede beside him and nodded slightly, "It's really amazing." ”

After saying that, he turned around with the delegation and went to the next exhibition hall, and there were still several planned halls that he needed to see in person.

However, although the official tour group is gone, the flow of ordinary exhibitors is slowly beginning to converge on the Shirakawa Museum.

Giant ultra-thin paper TVs and talking robots that can play the piano have begun to spread the legend of Shirakawakan in the exhibition area.

Robots look smart, but it's just because the language library is crammed into most of the everyday conversations.

In addition, there is a CCD image sensor on the robot's head, and the inside of it has been recorded in advance the avatars of important people.

A character like Yuto can identify an object with a scan of the camera.

That's why the WALLI robot can take the initiative to say hello to him, of course, all this that no one else knows.

In everyone's eyes, it is that Shirakawa Electric's robot is too powerful and can chat with real people.

Isn't the World Expo bigger than anyone's brain?

For this, Shirakawa Kaede is quite confident.

In addition to these, there is also a portable phone in the Shirakawa Pavilion that is wireless close to the mobile phones of later generations, which is much more advanced than NTT's shoulder strap phones weighing several kilograms.

There is a base station set up on the site, and everyone can pick up the phone and dial a fixed number, and you can talk in the entire Expo Park.

There are also ultra-thin laptops made with TFT screens, which have once again broken people's perception of computers.

In short, everything in the Shirakawa Pavilion is an eye-opener for the visitors.

This is the real future world, and this is the sci-fi environment where people will live in the future.

After this World Expo, Shirakawa Electric's daimyo will surely become world-famous.

However, as the host, Kaede Shirakawa did not have time to enjoy his personal time until he finished accompanying the official tour.

On the way back with Yuko Tanaka, Shirakawa Kaede suddenly saw a unique pavilion - the Huaxia Pavilion.

Well? Someone from your hometown?

Shirakawa Kaede was shocked and decided to take a look.

(End of chapter)