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Only three months earlier. IBM security men helped the FBI pull off another sting by nabbing five employees of Hitachi, Ltd., and Mitsubishi Electric Corp., two leading Japanese electronics firms. They were accused of conspiring to transport stolen IBM property out of the U.S. In the same investigation, a middle manager of National Advanced Systems, a subsidiary of California-based National Semiconductor Corp., was arrested for receiving stolen goods. Last week IBM filed suit against Hitachi and National Semiconductor, charging them with unfair competition through the use of confidential IBM materials...
...public attention has recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...
American companies pioneered electronic technology and have dominated the industry ever since primitive semiconductors were first mass-produced in the 1950s. Now that supremacy is being threatened by a formidable and frightening competitor: Japan. Last year Japanese companies, led by Hitachi, Fujitsu and Nippon Electric, captured 70% of the world market for a new, advanced chip called the 64K RAM (for random access memory) that is expected to become the biggest-selling semiconductor product by 1985. This chip can store 65,536 separate bits of data, or four times the capacity of the 16K RAM, which until recently...
Silicon Valley chipmakers complain that they fell behind in the 64K competition because Japanese firms benefited from relatively cheap bank loans (as low as 6% vs. about 16% in the U.S.) and government aid for research and development. Moreover, the Americans say, such large and diversified companies as Hitachi (1981 sales: $15 billion) and Nippon Electric ($5 billion) could afford to forgo profits on memory chips in order to undercut competitors. In the jargon of foreign trade, Japan has allegedly "dumped" chips in the U.S. market at a price lower than production costs...
...Yajima, professor emeritus of the prestigious Tokyo Institute of Technology: "Our mercantile image has once again been tarnished. We Japanese are now being regarded as a scheming bunch of villains around the U.S. It will take years for us to improve our image to what it had been before Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Mitsui were caught." The land where saving face is all important is now worried about losing face...