Japan is falling down....

[kopiuncle]

TOKYO (AFP) - Cash-strapped electronics giant Sharp Corp said on Thursday it was offering nearly all of its Japanese real estate - including its Osaka headquarters - as collateral to win fresh bank loans.

The unusual move comes as Sharp looks to stem massive losses that have pounded its share price and thrown into doubt a deal that would see Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision inject some desperately needed money into the Japanese firm.

The plan to use real estate as collateral for bank financing worth up to 150 billion yen (S$2.4 billion) excludes some properties in Tokyo's suburbs that the firm wants to sell, a Sharp spokeswoman said.

However, it does include the century-old television and smartphone maker's headquarters in western Japan and domestic production factories.

 

[kopiuncle]

TOKYO (AFP) - Nomura Holdings said on Thursday it would cut US$1 billion (S$1.25 billion) in costs, as part of a bid to repair its balance sheet as Japan's biggest brokerage recovers from an embarrassing insider trading scandal.

The firm said it planned to usher in the sweeping cuts by March 2014 across its global operations with about 45 per cent of the reductions coming from its operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In an investor presentation released on Thursday, the company did not reveal specifics of the cuts, including any job losses, but said it planned to "transform" its information technology expenses as it "improves business efficiencies, and rationalise (the) management structure".

In July, Nomura said profit in its fiscal first-quarter to June shrank almost 90 per cent owing to weakness in its retail and wholesale trading business.

 

[kopiuncle]

everything goes in cycles
you were sharp then
everywhere got sharp
now you are blunted
better change quick before
you disappear....reinvent,relocate, renovate!!!
get a sharp iphonesharp!!! and change the world!!!

 

[Narong Wongwan]

However, it does include the century-old television and smartphone maker's headquarters in western Japan and domestic production factories.

Pardon my ignorance...anyone seen a Sharp smartphone before? No wonder they going down...

 

[lifeafter41]

TOKYO (AFP) - Cash-strapped electronics giant Sharp Corp said on Thursday it was offering nearly all of its Japanese real estate - including its Osaka headquarters - as collateral to win fresh bank loans.

The unusual move comes as Sharp looks to stem massive losses that have pounded its share price and thrown into doubt a deal that would see Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision inject some desperately needed money into the Japanese firm.

The plan to use real estate as collateral for bank financing worth up to 150 billion yen (S$2.4 billion) excludes some properties in Tokyo's suburbs that the firm wants to sell, a Sharp spokeswoman said.

However, it does include the century-old television and smartphone maker's headquarters in western Japan and domestic production factories.

The south koreans has slowly but surely move in on them, sharp, Sony, panasonic, etc all losing market share. LCD/led TVs, smartphones, etc. they are now targeting the offices, namely copiers, lookout Ricoh, canon.

 

[kopiuncle]

the koreans are the new entrepreneurs and industrialists
they have the best of china and japan combined
even their kpops are going global
they will soon go into nuclear
when north and south unite
the world will be sorry...even china will be worried
many will be worried if there is no division....
KOREA will continue to rise and rise....
that bloody rotten apple is spoiling the rise!!!

 

[AxisOfEvil]

the koreans are the new entrepreneurs and industrialists
they have the best of china and japan combined
even their kpops are going global
they will soon go into nuclear
when north and south unite
the world will be sorry...even china will be worried
many will be worried if there is no division....
KOREA will continue to rise and rise....
that bloody rotten apple is spoiling the rise!!!

Apple SoC is manufactured by Samsung.

 

[kopiuncle]

samsung will be global UNO!!!
the Koreans will rise and rise
to the sky....conquer the whole world!
chio bus, chio songs,chio movies
everything so chio....chio...chio!!!

 

[Cestbon]

the koreans are the new entrepreneurs and industrialists
they have the best of china and japan combined
even their kpops are going global
they will soon go into nuclear
when north and south unite
the world will be sorry...even china will be worried
many will be worried if there is no division....
KOREA will continue to rise and rise....
that bloody rotten apple is spoiling the rise!!!

If both North Korea and South Korea unite. Then they will be strong just like Germany before East and West Germany.
Both Korea united win win for both
1. No need to spend so much on defence can cut by at least half(USA do not want this to happen cannot sell weapon)
2. Get manpower needed from N. Korea
3. Natural resources from North
4. South invest money for industrial, factory, mining.......................
5. Clear the land on 38 parallel for farming........etc is a big wasted land

United Korea will be top 5 biggest economy overtake Japan.

 

[Black Swan]

Japan will be the Greece of Asia.

 

[kopiuncle]

Japan will be the Greece of Asia.

if not the s pain of asia
falling fallling fallling
sharp kena blunted
soon sony boy will be hit
next will be hatchi hatchi
to an early death...
japan fuki gone case liao...

 

[yinyang]

Pardon my ignorance...anyone seen a Sharp smartphone before? No wonder they going down...

Not rising sun, but rise of Samseng mobiles:p

 

[sukhoi-30]

if not the s pain of asia
falling fallling fallling
sharp kena blunted
soon sony boy will be hit
next will be hatchi hatchi
to an early death...
japan fuki gone case liao...

The Koreans will convert the whole world to Christianity!
And says Jesus, Confucius, LKY are all Koreans.
And the whole world civilisations stole from Korean Civilisation!

 

[wikiphile]

TS, you must be the worst soothsayer i have seen. Apparently, this forum is still around and Japan has not been swallowed up by Godzilla. Do you have any fucking good news to share?

 

[yellowarse]

The Koreans will convert the whole world to Christianity!
And says Jesus, Confucius, LKY are all Koreans.
And the whole world civilisations stole from Korean Civilisation!

Ha ha ... the Koreans are now even saying that Sun Yat Sen was of Korean ancestry:

Dr Sun Yat-Sen is of Korean Descent?

 

[syed putra]

We have to thank Ronald Reagan for destroying the work culture of the japanese, forcing them to take saturday and sundays off, hike the value of the yen to double almost overnight, thus making their products expensive and allowing competitors from Korea to make inroads.
The japanese did not bother to reform to the old ways and their young ones are totally spoiled and worthless with nick names like carnivore women and herbivore men.
The japanese need another Akio Morita fast. After all, it was the japs that created many things that we take for granted in the house.

 

[Cruxx]

We have to thank Ronald Reagan for destroying the work culture of the japanese, forcing them to take saturday and sundays off, hike the value of the yen to double almost overnight, thus making their products expensive and allowing competitors from Korea to make inroads.
The japanese did not bother to reform to the old ways and their young ones are totally spoiled and worthless with nick names like carnivore women and herbivore men.
The japanese need another Akio Morita fast. After all, it was the japs that created many things that we take for granted in the house.

Reports of Japan's demise are greatly exaggerated.

 

[Leongsam]

All countries have their ups and downs. Don't worry about it.

 

[johnny333]

All countries have their ups and downs. Don't worry about it.

Eh, I don't agree. Take for example Spore. No more cheap labor & cheap land for industrialization.

It's now more about money laundrying, casinos, prostituition ....

 

[sukhoi-30]

Reports of Japan's demise are greatly exaggerated.

Yes, the reports and guesses of Japan's demise are greatly exaggerated.

The Japanese is not a people that are defeatist. Their Confucian/bushido spirit makes a good combination of a strong culture that gives them a certain defiance of odds and their sense of identity which the Chinese and Koreans lack. The younger generations may not be as harderend as their parents but they are still a force to be reckoned with.

The unification of the Koreans may still take some time. Like the chinese, the Korean although nationalistic did not posesses the extremely proud nature of Japanese of their nation and culture. The spread of their KPOP and technology do not mean that Koreans are going to be world power like the US or even the Chinese or Japanese.

I believe the Japanese are now studying the nimbleness of the Koreans and adapting strategies to meet these challenges. If one observe , the Japanese are still very strong in inventing new stuffs and their products such as TVs, fridges , industrial products are still widely more sought after than the Korean products.

In fact, the Taiwanese may be the main competitor to Japan and not the Koreans. the Taiwanese are quite brilliant too.