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Receives Apollo Achievement Award from NASA for work in development of consumer applications for ELSI technology
Receives Okochi Memorial Production Award for pioneering mass production of electronic calculators
Establishes Sharp Corporation of Australia Pty. Ltd. (SCA) as sales base in Australia
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US President Nixon announces temporary suspension of dollar-gold exchange (August 15)
Floating exchange rate system adopted for the yen (August 28)
All NHK TV shows broadcast in color (October 10)
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1972 |
Markets SF-201 wet-toner copier
Establishes Sharp System Products Co., Ltd.
Establishes Consumer Information Centers in 10 locations throughout Japan
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Sapporo Winter Olympics (February 3)
US returns Okinawa to Japan (May 15)
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Markets EL-805, the world's first COS pocket electronic calculator incorporating an LCD
Markets SJ-3300X, the first 3-door refrigerator with a special vegetable compartment
Officially adopts "Sincerity and Creativity" as Sharp's business creed and philosophy
Establishes SDA [now Sharp Korea Corporation (SKC)], a joint manufacturing company in Korea
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Second switch to floating exchange rate system (February 14)
Korean politician Kim Dae-Jung abducted (August 8)
First oil crisis. OPEC increases crude oil prices and cuts production (October 16)
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1974 |
Develops thin-film EL (electroluminescent) element
Launches ELM product strategy to develop resource- and energy-saving products
Constructs Sharp Tokyo (Ichigaya) building
Establishes Sharp-Roxy Corporation (M) Sdn. Bhd. (SRC), a joint manufacturing company in Malaysia
Establishes Sharp Electronics of Canada Ltd. (SECL) as sales base in Canada
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1975 |
Achieves production of 10 million calculators
Markets EL-8010, a calculator only 9 mm thick5
Markets EL-8009 compact calculator
Constructs color TV plant at SCA, Australia
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Vietnam War ends (April 10)
First summit of industrialized nations held (November 15)
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