I believe when they first got into manufacturing cameras Asahi was a
"horizontally integrated" (??) conglomerate; the company that owned the
breweries also owned newspapers, manufacturing, glass-making ... they
started spinning off various subsidiaries post WWII.
Wasn't Asahi the original name for the cameras they manufactured &
Pentax was a model name they applied to their reflex cameras when they
added the pentaprism? And the camera brand morphed into Asahi Pentax and
then into Pentax alone?
Or I could be wrong. It's not really that important. I just ran across
the article & noticed the name.
On 12/13/2016 2:35 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Asahi is a decent beer.
Of course, Asahi is a common brand name used by many unrelated Japanese
companies. "Asa hi" means "morning sun," which is an alternative for
"rising sun," the symbol of japan. (The Japanese name for their country,
Nihon or Nippon, means "origin of the sun," a name borrowed from the
Chinese, which view their own country as the Middle Kingdom and Japan as
the land of the origin of the (ie rising" sun. I believe the largest
Japanese newspaper is still Asahi Shinbun.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:32 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ab-inbev-to-sell-eastern-europe-
beer-brands-to-asahi-for-7-8-billion-1481613040
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