筆者のインタビューがワシントンポストに引用されています。 eb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Sharp Corp. said its operating loss from manufacturing solar cells narrowed in the third quarter as sales in Japan increased following the introduction of a government subsidy for the technology. The loss of 1.9 billion yen ($21 million) for the three months through Dec. 31 compared with a shortfall of 5.3 billion yen in the fiscal second quarter and 6.2 billion yen during the third quarter of 2011. Japan in July started a feed-in tariff guaranteeing above market prices for solar power. Sharp, which started in the solar business in 1959 and remains its oldest major manufacturer, relies on Japan for 80 percent of its sales in the business. It’s trimming operations in the U.S. and Europe because of the losses in the face of competition from bigger Chinese panel makers. “In a fight against Chinese makers, Sharp is not cost competitive,” Yoshihisa Toyosaki, an analyst at Architect Grand Design, an electronics research and consulting c...