Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, Your information is consistent with mine and makes the most sense to me. I wonder if you'd share the source of that quote. I hope Marc will also share the source of his tantalizingly revisionist conspiratorial view. Bruce Bruce Feldman Prague - ----- Original Message ----- From: Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) <peterk@lucent.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 4:44 PM Subject: [Leica] Nikon and Mitsubishi and ownership >Gentlemen, > >Nikon and Asahi (Pentax) are both members of the Mitsubishi Int'l (not owned >by it). This is basically a Japanese association and described as follows: > >"Mitsubishi is more than 40 independent companies who share a common >ancestry. The companies conduct business activities separately but cooperate >in areas like philanthropy and public affairs." > >Peter K >. 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!