"Man this sucks. P.S America is making it more difficult for Japan to recover and they won't likely recover again. They will need to adapt unless they can devalue the yen."

Did you know the US is in sort of like a big Depression? (I know they call it 'The Great Recession') but many states are closing many vital services, and even California has been paying employees with ‘I Owe Yous’ for the past several years at times. (California used to have one of the largest economies in the world if it was it’s own country.)

Yes, I agree with you, big corporations adjusting the government to suit their themselves is a big problem in the states – and it hurts many people in the states too. But I think most of Panasonic’s US consumers are the ‘average middle class people’ getting squeezed from both sides and don’t have the money to buy a nice new Plasma TV.

It’s kinda sad really, most everybody loses out.

Wonder which of the big japanese electronic companies will die first :?

Surely these losses are not sustainable..

Global economy doesn't work that way. If Japan goes down U.S. will be in big trouble too. Therefore the U.S. won't purposely sabotage the Japan economy.

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Well we all know that but America doesn't seem to mind. The US sees Japan as a huge threat their cars nearly killed the big three and their tech companies have posed a huge threat. America is doing everything it can to increase American production and kill off global competitors.

Obama has hurt Canada horribly now we are turning to China. The US has been hurting its trading partners for years. Also Japan's government is who said America helped them inflate the yen. Now that Japan's yen is so high they are doing everything they can to make it harder and more expensive for international corporations.

Also yes I understand the US is in a depression and on the verge of economic collapse. However the rest of the world is going through the exact same problems. Japan is going down the EU struggling other countries in Africa and the middle east and other stable countries also starting to struggle.

Protectionism will only hurt America and in turn the global economy. Plus America's unemployment rate is not that bad and the middle class should be able to survive. I have to say we are all in this together not one country against another this is a global economy.

10b ... that's an insane amount of money

I fear some of those jap. companies will die...

Panasonic was hot for electronic products in the 90's but since that they only been famous for their high quality plasma TV:s.

I planned to buy a Panasonic plasma TV for a while but since then LEDs have catched up and are very aweomse so most consumers including me will buy a Samsung LED.

Plasmas over LCD/LED ANYDAY, Plasmas are much much better then LED and LCD

But the money's coming from the state so its state funded.