Aiming at mobile market again

Sony's China arm, led by Hiroshi Takahashi, readies for a big push in smartphones

If you are meeting Hiroshi Takahashi, chairman and president of Sony China Ltd, for the first time, the Japanese corporate luminary can surprise you with his fluent Chinese. But, given his working experience in China, it should come as no surprise.

Takahashi is into his third stint in China. In 1979, he first came to China to study Mandarin. After graduating from Beijing Language and Culture University in 1985, he joined Japanese tech giant Sony Corporation.