Michael Turner wrote:
>
> credit, or to even remain utterly obscure. One of my favorite
> examples: it wasn't actually Deming who brought the quality
> revolution to Japan, but....Homer Sarasohn. (Who?)
That's an interesting story... When SONY's founder Masaru Ibuka
died the journal NATURE asked me to write the obituary for him -
(you can find the obituary here: NATURE, Vol. 391, 26 Feb 1998, page 848),
since that's very interesting I spent quite a while on this, and
even phoned former US occupation force officers in retirement in
California to find out more about the events in Japan after WWII,
around the foundation of SONY and also about the quality
revolution in Japan.
You should also mention Charles Protzmann in addition to Homer
Sarasohn (you'll find them both mentioned in my obituary for
Masaru Ibuka).
If anybody is seriously interested, I can fax a copy of the NATURE
obituary for Masaru Ibuka.
(most foreigners think that Morita is the founder of SONY - guess
why foreigners think that Morita founded SONY...)
Gerhard Fasol
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Received on Thu Mar 29 22:59:02 2001