The Japanese employees who had been
dispatched to the subsidiary took objection to
the order because they had become determined
to live in the US and work on the PC business.
Some of them even shed tears of frustration
and disappointment. Kawabata says, “I myself
felt like crying, too.” By his eager persuasion,
however, all of the employees finally agreed to go
back to Japan. Then it was decided that the local
subsidiary would be sold to Motorola, a major
semiconductor manufacturer in the US. Most of
the foreign employees of the subsidiary moved to
Motorola.