This leaves me with more questions than answers, how did these three companies come up with the idea of using that logo? Did they just independently arrive at same design (seems unlikely)? And how did the trademark registration process go for the second and third companies that registered it?
I first heard the word Kereitsu in the movie Rising Sun with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. The movie involves large Japanese corporations and this word is used a lot. It's a great movie, well worth watching -- though I have no idea how accurate it is. It depicts large Japanese corporations vying for an American technology company.<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107969/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_rising%2520sun" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107969/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8...</a>
It’s confusing to just say that Nikon or Kirin are Mitsubishi companies. It has to do with how keiretsu-style conglomerates operated.<p><a href="https://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/nikon/about-nikon/nikon-faq/is-nikon-a-subsidiary-of.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/nikon/about-nikon/nikon...</a>