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  Sharp faces crisis as mechanical pencil inventor turns 100

  By Naoko Fujimura and Mariko Yasu, Bloomberg  |  September 10, 2012

  Sharp Corp., Japan’s biggest liquid-crystal display maker, put up its Osaka headquarters and some plants as collateral last week to win bank loans after its credit ratings were cut to junk.

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  Sony, Sharp post combined $11 billion loss as TV units bleed

  By Mariko Yasu and Shunichi Ozasa, Bloomberg  |  April 10, 2012

  Sony Corp. and Sharp Corp. posted a combined 900 billion-yen ($11 billion) loss as the first decline in global TV shipments in six years and a stronger yen hurt overseas sales at Japan’s biggest LCD TV makers.