[Leica] The Nature of Japanese Corporate Ownership

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

Those on the LUG who honestly subscribe to the belief that organizations
such as Mitsubishi are not centrally controlled conglomerates are
encouraged to conduct an Alta Vista or Googol search under "Zaibatsu" and
"Mitsubishi".  Look for the various economic analyses of the nature of the
Japanese economy:  there is much there, all of it solid reading, showing
that the Japanese protestations to the contrary are eye-wash.

One such paper is the 1991 study from the Coalition for Open Trade (COT):

http://www.dbtrade.com/casework/cot/cot1/cot1.htm

But there are a slew of other sites with similar analyses.

This really isn't shockingly hot-of-the-presses news:  it has been the
standard fare taught in Western business schools and the like for a
half-century.

Marc

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