Course Description

The electric industry of Japan had a huge power from 1970 to 2000.
It almost conquered the world market.
In particular the name of Sony was brilliant.
Sony invented trinitron color television and Walkman.
Japanese companies like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba,Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Sanyo, Sharp and NEC, Fujitsu
produced high quality and low price goods.
But in these 10 years, Sanyo and Sharp were bought by foreingn companies.
Toshiba sold semiconductor division to a foreign company
.What happed?
Where is the electric industry going?