Japan has too many major electronics firms. The market is over-serviced.

The problem is that all companies produce the same products that have no distinction, they are all the same, but people think the quality of some products are better because of the name of the company.

This is not just in japan but a global thing.

Try buying electronics in europe, it all comes from a few factories they just slap a different logo on the casing. I remember my folks buying a Video-Camera, they looked at 10 different makers and all offered the SAME Camera just different casing colours and different prices.

LaCoste, Moby Dick, etc get their fashion made in the same factory that also supplies no-name brands, same quality you pay for the name NOT the product.

Sad but true.

Forgot to add.

When I still worked in IT, our mainframes were all build by Fujitsu but sold under names like Siemens, Amdahl, IBM, etc. Same with Network-controllers, Cartridge drives, etc.

They just put on a different casing and change the micro-code(language) a bit.

It is all the same when it comes down to the bare bones.

I wonder if Mr. Harada said the same thing when all the electronics firms were flying high in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and, er, 80s.

Princess - All electronics makers don't produce the same products. Some makers produce excellent products while others produce garbage that closely resembles the excellent products.

Harada thinks the market is over-serviced. And why is that undesirable? It provides a lot of jobs - very desirable if you ask me.

Some brands are just silly - JVC is part of National/Panasonic and Aiwa is part of Sony.