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The first five articles in this series discussed early licensees of the Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) transistor patents in the US and Europe. However, one more geographic region was actively involved in transistor development during the early 1950s: Japan. This final article in the series covers the story of one Japanese company’s efforts to license,…
The first modern department store in Japan was Mitsukoshi, which was founded in 1904. But in common with most of the country's most venerable department stores, Mitsukoshi 三越 has its roots in the Edo period, starting life as Echigoya 越後屋, a kimono shop in Nihonbashi that first opened for business…