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Products “made in Japan” with cheap, high quality individual to attract many customers, and generate surplus resources giant commercial for the country sunrise. But now most Japanese electronics manufacturers are into crisis and must change.

To visualize the Japanese electronics manufacturers, we just visit one of the busy streets of Tokyo in Akibahara district, where is considered as a center of electronic products worldwide. Here’s the focus of 9 hãng mobile phone. In the area selling household items, 5 of 9 will display your Vacuum Cleaner to pot rice cooker. Three of which also produce lift, and products used in the purchase of this. Easy to realize that industrial electronic Japan has too many brands and types of goods to and overlap each other.

Development strategy styled “supermarket“, in which employers have feet in all types of products, has developed work in the years 1960-1990. Products “made in Japan” with cheap, high quality has attracted consumers both inside and outside the country, source generated trade surplus and huge cause of the West of being established. The employers on this one expanded to some 500 companies, the activities in the areas from travel agents to restaurants.

Degradation but economic world are companies before difficulties growing and difficult to resolve. On electronic goods has decreased drastically. Meanwhile, the yen on a price increase, making export them. In 2008, the currency of the country sunrise increased 67% compared with the UK and 75% increase compared with South Korea’s won. Therefore, export, which accounted for 50% of sales of Japanese electronics manufacturers, prices become more expensive for consumers abroad.

Only 3 months, the carrier also forecast in 2008 is still profitable. But now, they are mentally prepared for loss results. Sony predicts losses 260 billion yen (2.6 billion USD) and Mr. Howard Stringer, the original sếp Wales (UK) this store, are preparing plans to re-structure. Sony expected to close some factories and dismiss about 16,000 employees.

Similar situation also occurs with competitor Sony. Panasonic announced loss amount 380 billion yen (3.8 billion USD) in 2008. Meanwhile, 2 manufacturer Hitachi and Toshiba, with products from the furnace to react to nuclear baked bread machine, turn holes 7 billion USD and 2.8 billion USD. Sharp, NEC and Fujitsu can not escape this trend.

Indeed, since quite long ago, leaders of employers know that business has fallen into crisis. But they face obstruction of, and can not implement the reform plan. The General Director is not able to put out the plan that the money you’ve outlined. And the relationship between intimate shareholders, re-structure the business is not easy.

By the end of 2008, has changed, when Toshiba agreed to buy majority shares in Sanyo Electric at a cost of U.S. $ 9 billion. After this trade, Panasonic understand the technology of solar and battery production, the array is considered very attractive by Sanyo.

Answers a long-term difficulties for the Japanese electronics manufacturers now is to move the industry to clean energy like solar and batteries for electric vehicles running. Package stimulate economic Japanese government announced recently a dedicated support for green industry, to promote a big change. Except a few groups of South Korea, there are very few businesses can compete with Japanese manufacturers in this manor. But does the vast scale of the carrier to cause problems, because the investment capital to put solar energy and electric cars will not exciting array of “Ordinary” as production pot or rice cooker business restaurant business.