Tech factory contrast: Foxconn ascends, while Sharp struggles

Macworld
Sep 30, 2012, 1:00 pm285 pts
Shige Watanabe remembers the boom days. "It was solid cars on the roads. The factories ran full steam, constantly," he says, standing in front of the electronics shop he has run for 30 years in the Japanese town of Yaita. A car occasionally cruises by his shop window, packed with Aquos TVs and other Sharp…

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