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...highly intelligent individual with superb management skills. But observers in the West are wondering how a foreigner who speaks no Japanese can hope to triumph at a company as clannish and complex as Sony. In fact, Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past. Unlike his predecessor, Norio Ohga, who was the surrogate son of co-founder Akio Morita, Idei was never viewed as an heir. Insiders referred to him as the company's first "salary-man CEO," implying that he was merely a hire and not a family member. Idei fancied himself as a kind of outsider...
...Japanese dancers, who are already back in Japan, have offered a written apology. Japanese diplomat Norio Saito says the four hope to return to China soon. When they do, they may want to keep their sense of humor to themselves...
This year’s Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to Keita Sato, Matsumi Suzuki and Norio Kogure, who jointly designed and marketed a dog-to-human translation device...
Sony co-founder Akio Morita and then-president Norio Ohga knew in the 1980s that the digital revolution was coming. In fact, with Philips Electronics, Sony created the audio CD. They talked about the revolution. And they set their engineers to work on digital products: audio and video recorders, televisions and broadcasting equipment. Still, the company's great innovators were backwinded by their own ingenuity. In the late 1980s, when Japan was riding high, Morita, who co-authored a book titled The Japan That Can Say No, began to spend as much time criticizing American management practices...
...that Sony finally removed Schulhof, the architect of its Hollywood dreams and the only American ever to sit on its board. With Morita sidelined since his 1993 stroke and unable to protect him, and new president Nobuyuki Idei, 57, clearly ascendant, Schulhof, 53, resigned after conferring with Sony chairman Norio Ohga, his remaining Tokyo mentor. Ohga "felt he had no choice but to support Mr. Idei," Schulhof told Time in an interview. "Therefore I could not stay here...