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I'm trying to draft an update to Consumer electronics in Japan to reflect the recent downsizing and consolidating in the Japanese Consumer Electronics Industry. The problem with the article is its contents are based on old info (Jan 1994) from the Library of Congress. The content of this page are meant as notes and are not reflective of the final version.

Effects of the Lost Decade and following recessions on Japanese Consumer Electronics Industry

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The Japanese electronics industry is downsizing.[1] There is also the recent reported losses [2][3], the Japanese electronics industry is past its era of dominance.[4] Low cost -which at one point was a key strength in Japan's competitiveness- of Korean, Taiwanese and Chinese electronics, helped erode Japanese companies market share outside Japan. Tougher S. Korean competition will force more Japanese companies to consolidate. [5] Dropping demand inside Japan, after the Japanese asset price bubble's collapse and the following Lost Decade. The Japanese semiconductor industry declined by 15% in 2009. Particularly after the Q3 2008 collapse of the digital consumer market, the industry collectively lost more than $5.5bn by the end of March 2009.[6]

Since the the turn of the century of the 21st Japanese consumer electronics companies have been facing tougher competition from American, Korean and Taiwanese companies. With Japanese companies losing their top position in categories like portable media players, TVs and semiconductors.[32] Hit hard by the economic crisis of 2008 Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Sharp, NEC and Toshiba reported losses amounting to $17 billion.[33] This has forced some of the smaller players like JVC and Kenwood to merge forming JVC Kenwood Holdings, and Renesas Technology and NEC Electronics -the semiconductors spinoff of NEC- to merge forming Renesas Electronics. Also some of the bigger players resorted to merging some of their operations as Hitachi, Casio and NEC and Fujitsu and Toshiba did with their cellphone business.

See Also

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References

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  1. ^ http://www.ventureoutsource.com/contract-manufacturing/trends-observations/2007/japanese-electronics-industrys-changing-landscape
  2. ^ http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800561989_1800007_NT_aee50359.HTM
  3. ^ http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1876282,00.html
  4. ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123374189497247395.html
  5. ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60907920100110?type=technologyNews%3FfeedType%3DRSS&feedName=technologyNews
  6. ^ http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/03/45370/nec-and-toshiba-talk-turkey.htm
  7. ^ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/30/mobile_handset_shipments_q3/
  8. ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUST10844720090619
  9. ^ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142062/Panasonic_finally_wins_control_of_Sanyo
  10. ^ http://blog.taragana.com/n/japanese-electronics-maker-hitachi-posts-record-annual-net-loss-of-81-billion-60003/
  11. ^ http://www.physorg.com/news158396102.html
  12. ^ http://www.france24.com/en/20090428-business-electronics-sharp-loss-annual-dollar-yen
  13. ^ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aTeJBOwwa928
  14. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/30/2478955.htm
  15. ^ http://www.satelliteguys.us/archive/t-125754.html
  16. ^ http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/03/45370/nec-and-toshiba-talk-turkey.htm
  17. ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123063528153142167.html
  18. ^ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aEg7558EmcQw&refer=asia
  19. ^ http://www.hometheatermag.com/news/020108sharpbuys/
  20. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/11/financial/f230533S27.DTL&feed=rss.business
  21. ^ http://www.domain-b.com/industry/electronics_ind/20090108_japan_electronics.html
  22. ^ http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.jst.go.jp/sicp/ws2009_ge3rd/35_company.pdf
  23. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_July_30/ai_n27952549
  24. ^ http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/sony-to-sell-small-medium-sized-lcd-facilities-to-kyocera
  25. ^ http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/elpida-to-raise-y185-billion-via-share-sale-to-us-partner
  26. ^ http://japantoday.com/category/executive-impact/view/hitachi-focuses-on-core-operations
  27. ^ http://japantoday.com/category/business/view/jvc-kenwood-to-end-camcorder-production-in-japan
  28. ^ http://japantoday.com/category/technology/view/toshiba-fujitsu-discuss-merging-mobile-phone-businesses
  29. ^ Sanyo signs $366 million deal to sell semiconductor unit to US chipmaker ON
  30. ^ Announcement of Agreements toward Panasonic’s Acquisition of All Shares of Panasonic Electric Works and SANYO
  31. ^ Panasonic buying Sanyo and other unit for $9.4 billion
  32. ^ Winning the global challenge: The Japanese electronics companies' race to innovate
  33. ^ Japanese electronics giants post $17b losses
  34. ^ https://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/g510-6587-00-winningglobalchallenge.pdf