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I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.
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American Dream
Japan
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A small company like Nichia should do niche products.
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Niche
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There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.
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Japan
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It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality.
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Lighting
Satisfying
Led
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My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.
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Electronics
Sony
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When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.
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Research
Invent
Laser
Led
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It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.
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Competition
Faster
High Quality
Pace
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You work to earn money. But in Japan, that idea has a bad image, and you're not supposed to say that.
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Japan
Earn
Supposed
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The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.
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Likes
Problem
Bureaucratic
Japanese
Press
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I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.
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Cost
Lighting
Led
Lower
Reduce
Worldwide
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I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.
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Quit
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For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.
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Lighting
Currently
Burn
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Led
Polluting
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I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.
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Thankful
Blue
Research
Opportunity I Am Me
Chemical
Corporation
Founder
Gave
Led
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Many researchers have joined the field and applied the LED to many new markets such as mobile phone screens, LED TV, and LED Lighting.
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Lighting
Mobile
Researchers
Screens
Tv
Applied
Phone
Joined
Led
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The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.
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Florida
Papers
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
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Economy
Companies
Contract
Daily
Drastically
Japanese
Implement
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The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.
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Billions
Dollars
Efficiency
Electricity
Light
Light Bulb
Save The World
Ten
Billions Of Dollars
Bulb
Costs
Times
Ten Times
Hundreds
Led
Regular
Save
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I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.
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Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Committee
Surprised
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If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.
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Researchers
Sony
Big Company
Freely
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I have been very fortunate to be supported by many people in my career. I also appreciate my personal friends, business friends, and my family who have been patient and understanding of my long working hours.
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Fortunate
Patient
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Basically, I like research because research is like to solve the quiz, you know. Always there is a problem, and I have to solve the problem. So I like those patterns. It's almost like research is sort of in a quiz.
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Patterns
Quiz
Research
Solve
Basically
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The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected.
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Affordable
Carbon
Emissions
Inception
Lighting
Medicine
Proliferation
Savings
Unexpected
Area
Reduced
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I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.
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Invention
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Physics
Prize
Theory
Sure
Awarded
People Win Know
Basic
Case
Device
Surprised
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