| Year |
Developments at Sharp |
World Events |
| 1986 |
- ・ President Akira Saeki named chairman, Senior Executive Director Haruo Tsuji named president (June 27)
- ・ Establishes Liquid Crystal Display Laboratories within the Corporate Research and Development Group
- ・ Sharp marine solar power generating system installed at a fishery in Oita Prefecture
- ・ Markets RE-1 microwave oven with see-through design
- ・ Markets toaster/microwave oven and "cooking refrigerator" as part of the "U's" series of space- and time-saving products
- ・ Markets VC-QIB "quick view" VCR
- ・ Consolidates Domestic Home Appliance Sales and Marketing Group and Domestic Information Systems Sales and Marketing Group to form Domestic Sales and Marketing Group
- ・ Establishes Sharp Electronica Espana S.A. (SEES) as manufacturing and sales base in Spain
- ・ Establishes Sharp Electronics (Taiwan) Co., Ltd. (SET) as manufacturing base in Taiwan
- ・ Establishes Sharp Electronics (Schweiz) AG (SEZ) as sales base in Switzerland
- ・ Establishes Sharp Electronics GmbH (SEA) as sales base in Austria
- ・ Establishes Sharp-Roxy Sales (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. (SRS) as sales base in Singapore
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- ・ Space Shuttle accident (January 28)
- ・ Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl Power Station, USSR (April 26)
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| 1987 |
- ・ Chairman Akira Saeki appointed as corporate advisor
- ・ Achieves production of one million "Shoin" Japanese word processors
- ・ Markets PA-7000 electronic organizer
- ・ Markets WD-850, the industry’s first Japanese word processor to incorporate a large EL display
- ・ Develops "superconducting magnetic resistor element," a ceramic superconducting high-performance magnetic sensor
- ・ Develops quantum well laser diode with world’s smallest current density threshold value
- ・ Reorganizes domestic marketing companies to form Sharp Electronics Sales Corporation and Sharp System Products Co., Ltd.
- ・ Establishes Sharp Appliances (Thailand) Limited (SATL) as manufacturing base in Thailand
- ・ Establishes Sharp Electronics (Singapore) Pte., Ltd. (SESL) as kit supplier in Singapore
- ・ Establishes Sharp-Roxy (Hong Kong) Ltd. (SRH) as joint sales company in Hong Kong
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- ・ US government places 100% tariff on PCs, TVs and electrical tools as sanction against Japan’s violation of semiconductor agreement (April 17)
- ・ Largest ever drop in stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange (Black Monday) (October 19)
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| 1988 |
- ・ Develops world’s first 14-inch color TFT LCD
- ・ Sharp traffic/weather information system installed on Seto Ohashi Bridge
- ・ Markets DUET-E/J English-Japanese translation system that uses OCR
- ・ Markets SJ-38WB, the industry’s first dual-swing door refrigerator
- ・ Markets ES-V458, the industry’s first fully automatic hot-water washing machine
- ・ Establishes Sharp Precision Manufacturing (U.K.) Ltd. (SPM) as manufacturing base in the UK
- ・ Establishes Sharp Corporation of New Zealand Ltd. (SCNZ) as sales base in New Zealand
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- ・ Iran-Iraq War ends (August 20)
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