Electronics
Many of the world's major electronics companies are based in Japan, including:
- Canon
- Casio
- Citizen
- Fujitsu
- Hitachi
- Mitsubishi Electric
- NEC
- Nikon
- Nintendo
- Panasonic
- Sharp
- Seiko
- Sony
- Toshiba
- Yamaha
Japan has 7 out of top 20 world's largest chip manufacturers as of 2005. Japan's electronic products are known for their quality, durability, and technological sophistication. Some of these companies cross over to automobile and finance sectors as part of a keiretsu.
Japan's computer industry developed with extraordinary speed and moved into international markets. Japanese computer technologies are some of the most advanced in the world.
The leading computer main frame manufacturers in Japan at the end of the 1980s (in the domestic market) were:
- Fujitsu
- Hitachi
- NEC
- IBM Japan
- Unisys
Leading personal computer manufacturers were:
- NEC
- Fujitsu
- Seiko Epson
- Toshiba
- IBM Japan
In 1988, Japan exported US $1.5 billion of computer equipment, up more than twelvefold from the US$122 million in 1980. Japanese firms were not very successful in exporting mainframe computers, but they did very well in peripheral equipment, such as printers and tape drives. In the rapidly growing personal computer market, Japan achieved a major market share in the United States during the 1980s. Imports of computer equipment in 1988 came to US$3.2 billion (including parts).
Economic developments, namely outsourcing and globalization made these disputes obsolete by the 1990s. Japanese and U.S. influence in the computer market dwindled, with Taiwanese and mainland Chinese companies taking over component production and later research and development.
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