I love that Shimadzu ad with the DeLorean in the Edo period later into the article.

https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/japan-back-to-the-...

江戸時代から科学の子ども。

"From the Edo period, science's children."

My translation here may not be super great - it's backed up by looking up and seeing that the Shimadzu Corporation has always made instruments for educational scientific measurement and was founded in the Meiji, 1875, which is only in the decade after the end of the Edo period.