Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:39 PM 5/2/99 +0200, Bruce Feldman wrote: >Marc, >This has nothing to do with your basic points, but from what I understand >from six years in Japan, part of which was spent doing contract work for >Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, there is a widespread misconception about this >name. No, there really isn't a misunderstanding. At the end of the Second World War, the Japanese were required to split up their corporate conglomerates - -- is the term Zaibatsu? They promised they would do so. They proved to MacArthur they had done so. But they didn't. So, of course, the Nikon guys want to claim, "oh, we haven't a thing to do with Mitsubishi!". Save, the Mitsubishi mark is on a number of Nikon products. And, now that the Japanese have to reveal some, but not all, of their corporate ownership, I think the truth is now out in the public purview. So, yes, your story sounds authentic. But what they told you isn't true, to my knowledge. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!