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To: TobagoJack who wrote (117425)	3/23/2016 11:38:17 PM
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LEDs and What future for Japan’s US$ 600 billion electronics sector? Japan’s 8 large electronics conglomerates: Hitachi Toshiba Fujitsu NEC Mitsubishi Electric Panasonic SONY SHARP combined have sales of about US$ 600 Billion, similar to the economic size of The Netherlands, but combined for about 15 years have shown no growth and no profits. They are poster children for the urgent need for corporate governance reform in Japan. These Japanese the zombie electronics companies are being subsidized by Japans ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS sector. The electronics firms were known and visible in our homes cars and everywhere. The electronics components firms are invisible. They are the guts of our Smartphones, Smart homes and all smart products. That is why the 18 trillion Yen companies are not showing up. Intel needed to write in the laptops. "Intel Inside" to make their products visible. Lost 2 decades Japan is quietly working and making profits capitalizing in their craftsmanship of developing micro components. Chinese assemble them based on cheap manpower. Americans and Europeans capitalizing on their knowhow of sales and marketing of consumer goods. What has this to do LEDs? Demand destruction amigo! By 2027, widespread use of LEDs could save about 348 TWh (compared to no LED use) of electricity: This is the equivalent annual electrical output of 44 large electric power plants (1000 megawatts each), and a total savings of more than $30 billion at today's electricity prices. http://energy.gov/energysaver/led-lighting