Leave it to Catacosinos, a New York University-educated economist who made his first fortune in electronics, to spy the opportunity.

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Yet for all their shifts in fortune the Japanese lineup of electronics makers has hardly budged in years.

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The electronics business is so big that if it were an independent enterprise, it would be on the Fortune 200 list of major corporations.

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