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Translation: Sony is indeed screwed. The sad thing is, this will confirm Japanese prefudices about non-Japanese executives, that Ghosn had begun to change.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/06/howard-stringer-taking-over-as-sony-chairman-and-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/06/howard-stringer-taking-over-as-sony-chairman-and-ceo/Dec 19th 2005 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/06/howard-stringer-taking-over-as-sony-chairman-and-ceo/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/06/howard-stringer-taking-over-as-sony-chairman-and-ceo/ "i think that that attraction came from sony's japanese image"

At least we still have 'Thanko'...

I agree though in part. For many years now something being Japanese was kinda synonymous with it being high quality, innovative, and either down right cool or down right strange or a delicious combination of both.

Of course, that sort of thinking is slightly naive. Japan has put it's share of out-and-out BAD products on the market as well as well.

Though I will miss the aura of Japanese-ee cool that comes from an ostensibly all Japanese company, I also agree with those who say that this could be very good for Sony. Maybe all this guy is gonna do is help keep the books in order and make sure the various divisions spend more time and Japanese-ee-nous on producing cool stuff, and less time fighting each other.

Is having a Gai-Jin at the helm such a big price to pay to have the Vaio XXXX, PSP2/3/4, PS4/5/6 not suck or cost $500 (more like $2500 for the Vaio) ?

All that said I (in my ignorance) think Kutaragi would have been a better choice.

What I really wonder is what the Japanese people think about this. I know they find caucasians fascinating to a certain extent, but I wonder if they're gonna like having one of them running an iconic company like Sony...
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