Japan′s Quest for Global Leadership in IT: The Impact on US Computer Companies

Over the past three decades, the Japanese information technology industry has been questing for global leadership. With the help of keiretsu, a special social organization, and government agencies, those giant information technology companies such as NEC, Fujitsu, etc. have become the leaders in dynamic random access memory chips (DRAM), disk storage devices, video display, fuzzy logic and neural networks. Proposes some strategies to counter the actions taken by the Japanese firms.