[rollei_list] Re: Nikon and Mitsubishi
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:16:58 -0800
Marc,
How true! Before I went to work on assignment in Japan, I was required
to take an INTENSE course on Japanese business and industry practices.
It was there that I learned about Zaibatsu and Vertical Monopolies.
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
> 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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