Industrial design has gained in recent years a high importance in the development of engineering and has become a fusion tool between manufacturing methods and artistic creation focused on users, becoming a discipline of high interest in this sector. The different societies of the world create completely different products from their needs and concepts, despite sharing the same function. It is this aesthetics and mentality focused on a single group that attracts the rest of consumers and seeks to understand the cognitive development behind that product. However, this process of ideas, normally rooted in the customs and traditional knowledge of this society, is reproduced in other industrial sectors such as automotive, technology, furniture, architecture, crafts or graphic design. The more you delve into these branches, the more insight you get that all these areas are interconnected thanks to industrial design, which is governed by traditional, technological and sociological components of the time. This study investigates the importance of the Japanese mentality and culture applied to different sectors of engineering, focused from the point of view of industrial design; where different engineering fields and the influences received from outside the Japanese country, with their subsequent personal export to the world, are analyzed. To fulfill these purposes, the objective of this study is to create a framework and a documentation base in the different sectors with their respective influences on Japanese society, classifying and delving into different authors and works while contextualizing themselves with respect to its time and historical situation. The unification of all the concepts that are collected independently of the different groups that are analyzed, to interpret and find connections with the rest of the sectors studied, either in the perceived mentality, the development of processes or any other factor, similar in manufacturing or end goal. The study of these areas not as separate entities from each other, but as a similar and homogeneous set, thus developing a base that categorizes all these similarities and interconnections.