Still, I believe the work done by Okano and his colleagues is a valuable step in that journey.

尽管如此，我相信对于行走在这条道路上的人来说，冈野和他的同事所取得的成果是整个旅程中极有价值的一步。

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"Human hands are the best sensors, " says Okano, who taught himself the business from German textbooks in the 1950s.

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Masayuki Okano has a factory in Mukojima, a section of Tokyo's Sumida ward that is jammed with small machine shops.

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Okano's craftsmen figure out how to do that for each design and then build a machine capable of pressing the casings automatically.

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