Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

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…Yeah, you're right. Nobody really knows why. The speculation in some of the books and things I read are just that Ibuka really is just kind of a dreamer. He just might not think about Morita, but once Morita writes to him, he's like, oh, yes, I definitely want you here. Yup. The company, by the way, if you go to Sony's website, they have meticulously maintained corporate archives. If you go and request them, I don't know if it is anyone, if it's just journalists, or whoever special guests, but they have this stuff preserved and can bring it out to you with gloves on and let you read the founding prospectus. They've maintained this stuff for 70+ years. We should do that someday. What does Morita do? He finagles an assignment in the military "to get a teaching assignment at a university in Tokyo," still sort of through his original contract employment agreement. He knows what's about to happen, which is that the occupation government is about to decree that everybody who was previously in the military needs to be purged out of government, but also out of education.…

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