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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Japan
Keywords: Kanji OS?
Message-ID: <10773@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 03:24:54 GMT
References: <2856@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2856@sactoh0.UUCP> mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark F. Newton) writes:
>I had read in comp.sci.japan that Commodore Japan closed it's
>doors, and it got me to thinking, how is Atari Japan doing? I have
>seen an article about the Atari Lynx in a Japanese magazine, but
>that's all I have seen about Atari in Japan.

Commodore Japan is still in existence, though they did down-size a few
years back.  Commodore hasn't marketed computers in Japan; the Japanese
office was used for purchasing and production engineering up until around
the time the C128 and Amiga 1000 were introduced.  Most of the production
engineering for Commodore is now done in the US and Germany.  The office
in Japan is now used for purchasing.  The reasoning for this is obvious:
doing any kind of business in Japan these days is just plain expensive.

>                             Mark Newton-John

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