Merrill Lynch analyst Hitoshi Kuriyama says there is also a greater-than-expected deterioration in Sony's other business lines.

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The call was from Hitoshi Katanoda, a photographer friend who works for Polaris Images, a New York photo agency.

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Hitoshi works for Polaris Images, a New York photo agency, and has spent the last several days in the disaster area.

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However, rangers later confirmed with climber Hitoshi Ogi, who survived the avalanche, and with teams on the mountain that the slide occurred early Wednesday.

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"During the search, NPS mountaineering ranger Tucker Chenoweth descended into the same crevasse that the survivor Hitoshi Ogi had fallen into during the avalanche, " the parks service said.

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Earlier in the day Hitoshi had driven north to the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, where the reactors are feared to be leaking radiation and at risk of an outright meltdown.

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