Rather like travellers who take supplies of everything from toothpaste to water with them whenever they step foot off the beaten track, Japanese companies moving into the US and Europe are increasingly bringing a retinue of reminders of home along with them: following the Rising Sun, software house MIS International is to set up new subsidiaries in Australia and in the UK, in order to look after the computer systems needs of Japanese manufacturers expanding overseas: the Sydney subsidiary will be formed within the year, and the London subsidiary early next year, and the move follows MSI’s success in winning business in US from the likes of Sony, Honda, Toyota and the Bank of Tokyo; it has separate subsidiaries in Los Angeles and New York with branch offices in San Francisco and Chicago, which together did $16m business last year and employ 40 permanent, 160 contract, staff.
