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OSAKA -- Sharp will stop
manufacturing household
appliances in Japan, relocating production
abroad as it turns toward China
and Southeast Asia and focuses on
making
high-value electronic parts
at home.
The company will end output
of LCD TVs at a Tochigi Prefecture plant this
year and refrigerators in Osaka Prefecture in fiscal 2019,
leaving
the Kameyama plant in
Mie Prefecture as Sharp's sole remaining TV factory
in Japan.
The discontinued production
will move to Thai and other
facilities of
Sharp owner Hon Hai,
the Taiwanese contract
electronics producer also
known as Foxconn.
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