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Sharp forecasts bigger losses for FY 08

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks about his company's current and future business in Tokyo on April 8. He said the Osaka-based Japanese electronics maker anticipates bigger losses for just-ended fiscal 2008, while planning to strengthen its output of large-sized liquid crystal display televisions and panels amid signs that demand is returning.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., and Mikio Katayama, president of the company, shake hands after holding a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace Katayama, on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question during a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama (L), on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question during a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama (L), on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman.

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda, executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., holds a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama, on April 1.

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Sharp President Katayama

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks at a press conference on the company's earnings prospects in Tokyo on June 3, 2011. Sharp said the same day it expects its group net profit to fall 69.1 percent in fiscal 2011 from the previous year to 6 billion yen due to temporarily suspended operations at plants making large LCD panels, and impact from the March earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Sharp to double Chinese retail outlets for Aquos LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. Katayama unveiled a business strategy of doubling the number of retail outlets in China for its Aquos liquid crystal display television sets to about 10,000 by the end of this year.

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Sharp to double Chinese retail outlets for Aquos LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. Katayama unveiled a business strategy of doubling the number of retail outlets in China for its Aquos liquid crystal display television sets to about 10,000 by the end of this year.

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Sharp sinks into red in FY08 on stock loss

OSAKA, Japan - Mikio Katayama (R), president of Sharp Corp., briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for fiscal 2008 at a news conference in Osaka on April 27.

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Sharp's 1st-half group net profit drops 35.3% to 28.01 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama talks about the company's earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2008 during a press conference in Osaka on Oct. 30.

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Competition, tax rule change put drag on Sharp's FY 2007 profit

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for fiscal 2007 in Osaka on April 25. Sharp's group operating profit fell 1.5 percent to 183.69 billion yen for the first fall in six years.

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Sharp eyes 1 trillion yen in sales of LCD TVs in FY 2008

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama introduces his company's latest liquid-crystal display television at the year's first press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 8. He said his company aims to post 1 trillion yen in sales of LCD televisions in the business year starting April 2008 on the strength of growing demand in China ahead of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

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Toshiba to ally with Sharp in LCD TV business

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Katayama (L), president of Sharp Corp., and Atsutoshi Nishida, president of Toshiba Corp., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21 to announce that the companies have agreed to team up in liquid-crystal display panels in an attempt to slash investment burdens amid intensifying competition in the global flat-panel TV industry.

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Sharp to become top shareholder in Pioneer in capital tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama (front) and Pioneer Corp. President Tamihiko Sudo hold a joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Sept. 20 to announce the two companies' business and capital tie-up.

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Sharp to become top shareholder in Pioneer in capital tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama (L) and Pioneer Corp. President Tamihiko Sudo shake hands during their joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Sept. 20. They announced that Sharp will become Pioneer's top shareholder under a business and capital tie-up.

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Sharp to build world's biggest LCD TV panel plant in Sakai

OSAKA, Japan - Mikio Katayama, president of Sharp Corp., poses with a model of the world's largest LCD TV panel plant the company plans to build in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. The photo was taken on July 31 at a hotel in Osaka where Katayama announced the construction plan. Sharp says the plant is scheduled to be completed by March 2010 and the company will spend 380 billion yen for the project

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Sharp revises FY 2006 dividends upward on robust profit growth

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks at a news conference in Osaka on April 25, where he said the company has revised its fiscal 2006 dividends upward to 26 yen per share from an earlier planned 24 yen, backed by robust profit growth on brisk sales of large liquid crystal display televisions.

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Sharp to promote Senior Executive Director Katayama to president

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp.'s Corporate Senior Executive Director Mikio Katayama, 49, will become the company's president on April 1. He will replace Katsuhiko Machida, 63, who will become board chairman.

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Sharp to promote Senior Executive Director Katayama to president

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida (R) congratulates his anointed successor, Corporate Senior Executive Director Mikio Katayama, at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Katayama, 49, will assume the presidency on April 1, while Machida, 63, will become board chairman.

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Abe names new LDP executives

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe (4th from L) joins hands with new party executives he named on Sept. 25 at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo. The executives (from L to R) are Acting Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara, General Council Chairman Yuya Niwa, Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa, Abe, Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi Nakagawa, the party's upper house caucus leader Mikio Aoki and the caucus Secretary General Toranosuke Katayama.

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Veteran Aoki promoted to head of LDP upper house caucus

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Aoki (L), new chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Councillors caucus, and Toranosuke Katayama, new secretary general of the group, speak to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on July 26.

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Sharp to promote Senior Executive Director Katayama to president

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp.'s Corporate Senior Executive Director Mikio Katayama, 49, will become the company's president on April 1. He will replace Katsuhiko Machida, 63, who will become board chairman. (Kyodo)

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Sharp to promote Senior Executive Director Katayama to president

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Katsuhiko Machida (R) congratulates his anointed successor, Corporate Senior Executive Director Mikio Katayama, at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Katayama, 49, will assume the presidency on April 1, while Machida, 63, will become board chairman. (Kyodo)

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Sharp revises FY 2006 dividends upward on robust profit growth

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks at a news conference in Osaka on April 25, where he said the company has revised its fiscal 2006 dividends upward to 26 yen per share from an earlier planned 24 yen, backed by robust profit growth on brisk sales of large liquid crystal display televisions. (Kyodo)

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Sharp to build world's biggest LCD TV panel plant in Sakai

OSAKA, Japan - Mikio Katayama, president of Sharp Corp., poses with a model of the world's largest LCD TV panel plant the company plans to build in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. The photo was taken on July 31 at a hotel in Osaka where Katayama announced the construction plan. Sharp says the plant is scheduled to be completed by March 2010 and the company will spend 380 billion yen for the project (Kyodo)

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Sharp to become top shareholder in Pioneer in capital tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama (front) and Pioneer Corp. President Tamihiko Sudo hold a joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Sept. 20 to announce the two companies' business and capital tie-up. (Kyodo)

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Sharp to become top shareholder in Pioneer in capital tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama (L) and Pioneer Corp. President Tamihiko Sudo shake hands during their joint news conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Sept. 20. They announced that Sharp will become Pioneer's top shareholder under a business and capital tie-up. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to ally with Sharp in LCD TV business

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Katayama (L), president of Sharp Corp., and Atsutoshi Nishida, president of Toshiba Corp., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21 to announce that the companies have agreed to team up in liquid-crystal display panels in an attempt to slash investment burdens amid intensifying competition in the global flat-panel TV industry. (Kyodo)

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Sharp eyes 1 trillion yen in sales of LCD TVs in FY 2008

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama introduces his company's latest liquid-crystal display television at the year's first press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 8. He said his company aims to post 1 trillion yen in sales of LCD televisions in the business year starting April 2008 on the strength of growing demand in China ahead of the Olympic Games in Beijing. (Kyodo)

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Competition, tax rule change put drag on Sharp's FY 2007 profit

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for fiscal 2007 in Osaka on April 25. Sharp's group operating profit fell 1.5 percent to 183.69 billion yen for the first fall in six years. (Kyodo)

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Sharp's 1st-half group net profit drops 35.3% to 28.01 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama talks about the company's earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2008 during a press conference in Osaka on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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Sharp forecasts bigger losses for FY 08

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks about his company's current and future business in Tokyo on April 8. He said the Osaka-based Japanese electronics maker anticipates bigger losses for just-ended fiscal 2008, while planning to strengthen its output of large-sized liquid crystal display televisions and panels amid signs that demand is returning. (Kyodo)

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Sharp sinks into red in FY08 on stock loss

OSAKA, Japan - Mikio Katayama (R), president of Sharp Corp., briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for fiscal 2008 at a news conference in Osaka on April 27. (Kyodo)

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Abe names new LDP executives

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe (4th from L) joins hands with new party executives he named on Sept. 25 at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo. The executives (from L to R) are Acting Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara, General Council Chairman Yuya Niwa, Secretary General Hidenao Nakagawa, Abe, Policy Research Council Chairman Shoichi Nakagawa, the party's upper house caucus leader Mikio Aoki and the caucus Secretary General Toranosuke Katayama. (Kyodo)

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Sharp president Katayama

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2010. Katayama said the electronics maker is considering launching a handset with which people can see 3-D images with their own eyes in 2011 or later. (Kyodo)

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Sharp President Katayama

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks at a press conference on the company's earnings prospects in Tokyo on June 3, 2011. Sharp said the same day it expects its group net profit to fall 69.1 percent in fiscal 2011 from the previous year to 6 billion yen due to temporarily suspended operations at plants making large LCD panels, and impact from the March earthquake-tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Sharp to double Chinese retail outlets for Aquos LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. Katayama unveiled a business strategy of doubling the number of retail outlets in China for its Aquos liquid crystal display television sets to about 10,000 by the end of this year. (Kyodo)

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Sharp to double Chinese retail outlets for Aquos LCD TVs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Mikio Katayama speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. Katayama unveiled a business strategy of doubling the number of retail outlets in China for its Aquos liquid crystal display television sets to about 10,000 by the end of this year. (Kyodo)

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., and Mikio Katayama, president of the company, shake hands after holding a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace Katayama, on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman. (Kyodo)

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question during a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama (L), on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman. (Kyodo)

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda (R), executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., answers a reporter's question during a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama (L), on April 1. Katayama will step aside to become chairman. (Kyodo)

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Sharp names director Okuda as president

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Okuda, executive managing officer of Sharp Corp., holds a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on March 14, 2012. The Japanese electronics maker said the same day that Okuda will replace its current president, Mikio Katayama, on April 1. (Kyodo)

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Veteran Aoki promoted to head of LDP upper house caucus

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Aoki (L), new chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Councillors caucus, and Toranosuke Katayama, new secretary general of the group, speak to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on July 26. (Kyodo)