For decades, Sony’s Akio Morita amassed a fortune by selling electronic products to the United States. He also developed a kind of arrogance. In 1953, when Akio Morita embarked on his first overseas trip, he perceived the United States as a nation that “seemed to have everything”. The waiter brought him ice cream and remarked, “The little paper umbrella on this ice cream is produced in your country.” The waiter appeared to be implying that Japan was too far behind. But 30 years later, everything had changed. New York, which seemed “glamorous” when Morita first visited in the 1950s, was now filthy, crime-infested and bankrupt. Meanwhile, Sony had become a…