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Tokyo is bracing for some retribution. Warns Sony chairman Akio Morita: "I am seriously concerned about suffering a backlash from an America full of self-confidence." But U.S. officials deny they intend to be vindictive. "We're not going to use the gulf situation to make exorbitant demands," says a State Department official. In fact, a confident America may find it easier to deal with a rich, sometimes smug Japan. It is when the U.S. feels threatened that it attempts to contain its rival...
Some Hollywood insiders as well as political critics are worried that foreign owners might change the fundamental nature of American movies and television shows, subtly shifting their tone and content. Those concerns were heightened last week at the press conference Matsushita president Akio Tanii conducted by satellite video hookup after the deal was announced. In answer to an American reporter's hypothetical question about what Tanii would do if Universal wanted to make a Japan-bashing film or one that criticized the late Emperor Hirohito, Tanii responded ambiguously, "Something like that shouldn't emerge. Filmmakers must create films that...
With its combination of musical whimsy and homicidal lyrical glee, Tokyo Rose becomes an unlikely, indeed unwitting, rejoinder to The Japan That Can Say No, the Japanese best seller written by Sony's chairman, Akio Morita, and Shintaro Ishihara that has stirred such debate with its pointed challenges to America. Tokyo Rose is, in fact, an improvement on it. You can dance to Parks if you have some appropriately eccentric moves. And while he's riling you, he can always make you smile...
...acquisition was so controversial, while an Australian firm's attempted takeover of MGM/UA "was mainly treated by the media as a minor business news item." Part of the answer, he suggested in the Wall Street Journal, is a "media pandering to American xenophobia and latent racism." Sony chairman Akio Morita, noting the U.S. Government's World War II internment of Japanese Americans, surmised that Americans still see the Japanese as "strangers...
...race, U.S. scientists in the late 1950s began a drive to shrink the electronics necessary to guide missiles, creating lightweight devices for easy launch into space. It was the Japanese, though, who saw the value of applying miniature technology to the consumer market. In his book Made in Japan, Akio Morita tells how he proudly showed Sony's $29.95 transistor radio to U.S. retailers in 1955 and was repeatedly asked, as he made the rounds of New York City's electronics outlets, "Who needs these tiny things...