Japan has granted national security clearance to Taiwan's Yageo for its unsolicited bid to buy Shibaura Electronics, ...

Japanese electronics firms grapple with quake's effects The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the country today is affecting the operations of companies including consumer electronics giant Sony.

Many at Panasonic were puzzled. "Someone said the office full of people wearing this would look weird," said Kang Hwayoung, another member of the 10-person design team. The project is among a ...

Japan's household names like Sharp Corp, Panasonic Corp and Sony Corp, have suffered losses on their consumer electronics units in recent years, with many analysts blaming a lack of insight into ...

Japan is a leading producer of electronics components for the global market. Since the earthquake, many factories have been shut down indefinitely and others say they haven't been affected ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Toshiba employees at the electronics company's Yokkaichi plant in western Japan have been asked to give up ...

Japan's storied electronics companies are struggling in the cutthroat consumer goods market amid cheaper, and often more innovative, rivals from South Korea and China. As a result, the beleaguered ...

TOKYO--If Japan can return to something like the glory days it enjoyed in the 1980s, when it ruled the consumer electronics market, it would do so partly because of groups like the Bro Dra.

The following business briefing on Japanese electronics companies ran in our issue dated February 20th 1982. This week's issue looks at the current state of the industry, but back in 1982 we were ...

Tetsuro Funai is the last of Japan's postwar electronics tycoons. At 73 he is also something of a late bloomer. While most Japanese electronics makers grew quickly during the 1970s and 1980s, his ...