Gordon Brewer visits Japan, to gauge the state of the Japanese software industry. With Nintendo having already demonstrated that a Japanese corporation can quickly dominate the US video games software market, should the big American business software developers be worried?

Gordon speaks with Charles Elliot of Goldman Sachs, Nintendo's resident design genius Shigeru Miyamoto, Kazuhiko "Kay" Nishi of ASCII, author Thomas Zengage, Bill Totten of Ashisuto and Ken Sakamura - the Tokyo University Professor behind Japan's ambitious TRON project.

This clip is from The Money Programme, originally broadcast 25 March, 1990.

00:00 Japan's relationship with computers 01:00 Software versus hardware 01:17 Nintendo Famicom 02:10 Charles Elliot on Nintendo's success 03:03 Inside Nintendo 03:24 Shigeru Miyamoto at work 04:34 Nintendo engineers at work 05:03 The trouble with business software in Japan 05:51 "Kay" Nishi - manufacturing versus designing 06:57 TRON Project computer controlled smart house 07:53 Ken Sakamura on Japanese language in computers 08:23 Corporations adopting TRON-based computers 08:53 Thomas Zengage on changing global software market 09:26 Japanese developed software packages 10:05 Bill Totten on American complacency 10:54 Nintendo's non-game software for Famicom 11:36 Will America lose its foreign software market?