I was surprised by this article for this very reason. Sega's predecessor started as an American company that had business in slot machines on military bases in

I was surprised by this article for this very reason. Sega's predecessor started as an American company that had business in slot machines on military bases in Hawaii, and when slot machines were banned in the US, it bought them up and moved to Japan to American bases in Japan. "Moved" is really simplifying things, there were mergers and split-ups and re-mergers along the way. But in short it became a Japanese company run by Americans in the military sphere and in the 2000s was merged with Sammy, a pachinko machine company.[1] So Sega started with, and ended up back as a slot machine company. [1] https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/04/21/ign-presents-the-history-of-sega https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/04/21/ign-presents-the-his...