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FRONTLINE; Coming from Japan

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Series
FRONTLINE
Program
Coming from Japan
Program Number

1011

Series Description

FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as PBS's flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.

Program Description

The Matsushita Electric Company: how many Americans could pronounce this company's name, much less tell you what it does? Yet in 1990, Matsushita bought the entertainment conglomerate MCA Universal for $6.8 billion, the largest acquisition ever by a Japanese company in America. Matsushita is one of the largest corporations in the world, with a controversial history in the United States stretching back more than thirty years. In "The Giant from Japan," FRONTLINE examines the epic rise of this Japanese company and its uneasy presence in America. Reported by Japanese social critic Shuichi Kato.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Subjects
Business and Economics
Technology
Genres
Documentary
Topics
Social Issues
Global Affairs
Creators
Kato, Shuichi (Writer)
Lennon, Thomas (Writer)
Shimono, Sab (Narrator)
Fanning, David (Executive Producer)
Publication Information
WGBH Educational Foundation
Citation
Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Coming from Japan,” GBH Archives, accessed December 7, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_683817030F764740A33EB0747DA044FA.
MLA: “FRONTLINE; Coming from Japan.” GBH Archives. Web. December 7, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_683817030F764740A33EB0747DA044FA>.
APA: FRONTLINE; Coming from Japan. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_683817030F764740A33EB0747DA044FA
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