Sharp said sales of LCD TVs "fell drastically" on a year ago, mainly as a result of "sluggish demand in Japan and a sales decline in China, owing to worsening Japan-China relations".
By region, it expects a mid-teens percentage increase in sales in the Americas, a mid-twenties percentage increase in both Asia-Pacific and Europe, and a modest sales decline in Japan.
In hidebound Japan the decline continues, to 19 billionaires from 41 as recently as 1996.
In Japan there has been a decline which has pretty much wiped out the rise in house prices that occurred between 1970 and 1990.
Growth in Europe will reach 7 percent in 2011 and Japan will see a decline of 5 percent, due, in part to structural decline and also the impact of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The BOJ's ultimate goal is to reverse Japan's chronic decline in consumer prices and induce inflation of 2% in two years.
Although China's share has grown since then, this has been largely offset by the decline in Japan, whose share of output and exports has halved.
They reportedly approached Hitachi, knowing that Hitachi is desperate to find projects for its nuclear plant business as the post-Fukushima disaster Japan home market seems in terminal decline.
Fifteen fortunes declined with the biggest fall coming for Eitaro Itoyama, whose golf course assets were revalued by FORBES as the sport continues to decline in Japan.
Arjuna Mahendran from HSBC Private bank said the most alarming part was the decline in exports from Japan to Europe as a slowdown in the latter hurt demand.
The company blamed media coverage of the hoof-and-mouth disease plaguing European cattle farmers for part of the decline, coupled with a surplus of both beef and pork for a decline in exports to Japan and South Korea, where it had strong sales last year.
The skid, which came on record trading volume, was its biggest since the decline in the wake of Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011.
Japan Airlines has raised its profit forecast despite a decline in earnings for the first three quarters and the grounding of its Dreamliner fleet.
Last year, international patents applications increased by 4.8 percent, with strong growth from China, Korea, and Japan offsetting a mixed performance in European countries and a continued decline in the United States.
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Japan's core machinery orders fell in January, the first decline in four months, in a sign that the nation's economic recovery has yet to gain momentum.
Shares in banks and real-estate firms, which tend to perform better when the economy strengthens, have picked up, reflecting expectations that the Bank of Japan will loosen policy more aggressively to halt the general decline in prices that has crippled domestic demand.
"Every decline in the yen against the US dollar means Japan is paying for more for its energy needs - it's a steep rise in costs for everybody, " said Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac.
Stocks in Tokyo dropped for the sixth consecutive day, with the Nikkei finishing at 8720.01, down 1.5% its biggest percentage decline in more than a month after the Bank of Japan disappointed investors by deciding essentially to maintain its current policy.
However, in the 1930s, with the rise of new regional powers such as Japan and the decline of the British Navy as a bulwark against threats to the United States, it became necessary for defense planners to consider the possibility of confronting threats in two theaters simultaneously.
The explanation offered in narration and by students interviewed for the decline Japanese studying abroad was, of course, was extremely weak and competitive job market in Japan.
Japan's stock market was one of the best-performing in the world early this year, as a decline in the yen fueled sharp gains in exporters of cars, electronics and other products.
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