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...Hitachi pleads guilty
Last June, Hitachi Senior Engineer Kenji Hayashi and two colleagues walked into the Santa Clara offices of Glenmar Associates, purportedly a California consulting firm, to collect IBM documents giving crucial details of the company's newest computer technology. Hitachi had made payments totaling $622,000 to get the information. To Hayashi's surprise, he was confronted by a gaggle of FBI agents, who had set an Abscam-like trap to catch Hayashi and his friends...
...federal court in San Francisco last week, Hitachi pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport stolen IBM secrets to Japan. The company was fined $10,000, Hayashi $10,000 and another employee $4,000. The $24,000 in fines struck some observers as a bit light. Conceding that the costs of setting up the Japanscam were far greater than that, Assistant U.S. Attorney Herbert Hoffman added: "But then we don't run criminal investigations on a cost-effective basis. Justice has been accomplished." Also, Hitachi is out of pocket considerably more than $24,000. The $622,000 that Hitachi paid...
...from 17 to 60, about 90% of them men. Companies do not require their workers to attend, but strongly encourage them by paying the center's $200 fee in full and not docking workers' pay while they are at Ise. Many of the big Japanese companies, including Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toyota and Marubeni, have at one time or another sent employees...
Most of the trainees feel good about the experience, returning to their work stations refreshed and rejuvenated. Said Kazuya Kadota, senior engineer at Hitachi: "Because of the high pressure at work, I haven't had time to communicate with my juniors. But being here will help me talk with them heart to heart. Our relationship will be smoother, and so their desire to work harder will increase...