Matsushita
Proper noun
Meaning
Matsushita (plural Matsushitas)
A surname from Japanese.
Examples
Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
Karl Kaoru Matsushita in the Poetry Room with a copy of Rad American Women A-Z and the print of Yuri Kochiyama by artist Miriam Klein Stahl.
Matsushita vacuum cleaners use microcontrollers running fuzzy algorithms to interrogate dust sensors and adjust suction power accordingly.
While Matsushita initially claimed to be planning a game console with the technology, it was shortly thereafter re-branded for the kiosk market competing with the CD-i system.
Matsushita also regarded Betamax's one-hour recording time limit as a disadvantage.
Matsushita (which later took the name Panasonic), while not a zaibatsu, was originally also targeted for dissolution, but was saved by a petition signed by 15,000 of its unionized workers and their families.