[rollei_list] Nikon and Mitsubishi
- From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:37:45 -0500
At 01:26 PM 1/2/06 -0800, Peter K. wrote:
>
>Your comment on Mitsubishi is
>partiall true but the reality is that Nikon, and also Asahi (Pentax), are
>members of the Mitsubishi International and NOT owned. This is basically a
>Japanese association and described as follows:
Peter
This is so much idle bull-puckey. Forty years ago, the head of the Byrd
Machine here in Virginia, "Big Harry" Byrd, used to deny that there was any
such thing as the "Byrd Machine" but would simply chuckle and claim that
"we are just a bunch of like-minded gentlemen". This is the same ficiton
Mitsubishi and the other daibatsu propose, but it is a lie in both cases.
The Japanese economy was essentially run by six large mega-coirporations
prior to and during hte Second World War. The Alllied Control Commission
attempted to break these up completely but the Japanese dragged their heels
to the point that they were still in effective existence by the time the
Korean War broke out. At that point, the UN forces needed the Japanese as
a logistics base, so a face-saving compromise was created under which the
myth of "coöperative" companies became the order of the day. That doesn't
stop the fact that these companies are all controlled by Mitsubishi and
that various international groups from the UN to the OECD have been
attempting for years to crack them up completely. Japan has an anti-trust
law which is so crude and powerless that it would embarrass a colony of
cherrystone clams.
The significant reality is that every Monday morning, the CEO's of the
subordinate companies, such as Nikon, call on the CEO of Mitsubishi at HIS
office to report to him and to receive their marching orders.
Do a Google search for "zaibatsu" and see where it leads. Avoid Nikon and
Mitsubishi sites as they simply regurgitate the tired falsehoods that
"we're all just friends". Note, incidentally, that when Nikon started
having huge financial problems in the early 1990's, their longevity was
directly linked to the willingness of Mitsubishi to absorb their losses,
hardly the action of a "coöperating" business but very much of the sort of
way in which Daimler-Benz treated Mercedes at the same time.
Marc
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