Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Many thank, Peter. It's nice to get the facts from a fellow naive UFO buff! :-) Regards, 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 11:12 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Nikon and Mitsubishi and ownership >Sure Bruce, > >You can find it at the bottom of the web pag at >http://www.mitsubishi.or.jp/e/monitor/monitor_old/97version/monitor10/NEW_E . >html > >And there is an interview with Nikon President where they ask him about >Nikon being a Mitsubishi Company....see bottom of >http://www.mitsubishi.or.jp/e/monitor/monitor_old/97version/monitor10/pres. h >tml > >Peter K > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bruce Feldman [mailto:brucef@ti.cz] >Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 11:50 AM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Nikon and Mitsubishi and ownership > > >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! >