
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 3, 1990                   TAG: 9004030539
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: PARK RIDGE, N.J.                                LENGTH: Short

DAY OF INFAMY RETURNS TO HAUNT SONY

The Berlin Wall, the Warsaw Pact and other legacies of World War II are fading fast, but some things live in infamy, as Sony Corp. of America was recently reminded.

The Japanese electronics company acknowledged Monday that it apologized to a customer for using Dec. 7 - the date of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor - as an example in an owners manual explaining how to set the date on its videocassette recorders.

Sony's apology came in response to a complaint by Scott L. Edelheit of Boca Raton, Fla., who said his father was killed at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

The date was inadvertently used in the Japanese-printed manual for a VCR Edelheit had bought, said Jason Farrow, a spokesman at Sony's U.S. headquarters in Park Ridge.

"We try to be sensitive on these issues," he said. "It would be irrational for anyone to think that a company that does 25 percent of its business in the United States would ever intentionally do anything like that."

-Associated Press

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