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In March 2005, then-chief executive Nobuyuki Idei , in choosing his successor, said he hoped Mr. Stringer could do the same for the struggling Japanese hardware operations, in a surprise management overhaul that made Mr. Stringer one of a handful of foreigners to lead a Japanese blue-chip firm.

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Yet I do believe that the honor of formulating the question in the most succinct and elegant terms possible must go to Sorin Cucerai in his brief but powerful essay, “The Fear of Capitalism and One of its Sources,” in the May issue of Idei in Dialog.

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In his speech last week, Idei said he "is not, in principle, against Japan's lifetime employment system."

Sony: Play As Work 2008

"Nobody [in the United States] talks about layoffs because start-up companies in Silicon Valley have hired so many people," Idei told NEWSWEEK in an exclusive interview last week.

Sony: Play As Work 2008

"Sony entered the life-insurance business after Morita-san took a trip to Chicago and noticed that an insurance company owned the tallest skyscraper in the city," Idei told the gathering of Japan's top securities analysts.

Sony: Play As Work 2008

Sony, Idei reasoned, needed to link its line of components with a growing library of movies, music and software it had picked up -- for what at the time seemed fancy prices -- over the past two decades.

Sony: Play As Work 2008

As the stockbrokers chuckled, Idei continued his story.

Sony: Play As Work 2008

Idei spoke for an hour, counting out points on his fingers.

Sony: Play As Work 2008

Idei has a sweeping blueprint to embrace the Internet and link Sony's electronic goods -- including the much-vaunted game machine PlayStation 2, the Vaio line of computers and digital televisions -- with the firm's music, movies, game software and financial services.

Sony: Play As Work 2008

For Idei, deteriorating conditions prompted a new vision of the company's future -- one that did not rely solely on men in white lab coats developing ever-better videocams.

Sony: Play As Work 2008