Japanese Xbox boss steps down

Hirohisa Ohura, who is responsible for Xbox operations in Japan, is joining a corporate planning team in Seattle, so Microsoft will have to find someone else to struggle with slow sales there. Actually, it hasn't sold all that badly for an American electronics product, because in general, the Japanese simply will not buy non-Japanese electronics products, regardless of quality, price or anything else. (Apple Japan is one of the few non-Japanese companies to have any noticeable success, selling 98,000 Macs in Japan in the second quarter of this year. It's still not a lot.) Microsoft should do a deal with the Johnny Walker or J&B distributor and sell a version localised with a built in whisky dispenser.