RE: [Leica] Nikon and Mitsubishi and ownership

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

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
>
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