Japan could overwhelm the United States economically by focusing on broadband technology, Sony Corp. Chairman Nobuyuki Idei said Wednesday.

According to Idei, the U.S. lacks a strategy in this area.

"I think (the U.S.) should be a leader in broadband," Idei said in an address to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. "If the Americans don't do it, I'm encouraging the Japanese government (to make) Japan the leader of the broadband society.