Sharp Corporation

…into a joint venture with Sharp Corp. of Japan in 1982 to produce together high-speed copiers and other office machines. That same year Docutel Corp., an electronics company and leading American manufacturer of automated teller machines, purchased Olivetti Corp., an American subsidiary of the company. The merger agreement made Olivetti…

Son sold the technology to Sharp Corporation and used the proceeds to establish the predecessor of SoftBank after returning to Japan in 1981.