After Fred sold the business to Shibuya Corp., I stayed on as foreman for a year or so. During that time they shipped a large CNC laser from Japan. It was 4 weeks in transit to Seattle, then 3 days from Seattle to our shop in Modesto. I wasn't informed of any of this until the morning it was to arrive, when I was told to get a crane to unload it. On such short notice there was no crane available with sufficient capacity, so I had to wrangle two cranes from two different companies. It was VERY expensive. This was typical of how they managed the business.
They ultimately got tired of shipping money to the U.S. to cover the losses from the companies they bought and mismanaged. Based on my experience with Shibuya, it was a puzzle how the Japanese ever became the manufacturing powerhouse that they were.