My Bridge to America: Discovering the New World for Minolta
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- Synopsis
- This is the story of a life that has bridged two cultures, Japanese and American. President of the Minolta Corporation, American distributors of Japan's Minolta cameras and business equipment, Sam Kusumoto has played a leading role in the development of Japan's huge export market to the United States. His autobiography is the Horatio Alger story of a young Japanese salesman who came to America in 1954 with two suitcases full of Minolta cameras and failed to sell a single one for two years. Yet he persisted and eventually succeeded in establishing a major market in this country that has brought sales of Minolta cameras and office equipment in America to $800 million a year. As his personal story unfolds, Sam Kusumoto's autobiography provides a penetrating insight into the close but troubled economic relations between Japan and the United States. Kusumoto brings the much discussed trade imbalance question into clearer focus and tells how he believes the situation can be alleviated. He feels America can best equal and surpass Japan's economic miracle by utilizing methods that American business experts taught Japan during the occupation but which we have neglected to apply at home. Here indeed is a fascinating autobiography and a revealing close-up picture of business relations between America and Japan.
- Copyright:
- 1989
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 356 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780525247876
- Publisher:
- E. P. Dutton
- Date of Addition:
- 07/26/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Sadehei Kusumoto and Edmund P. Murray
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- Yes
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Larry Lumpkin
- Proofread By:
- Beverly Cory
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.