Lay-offs with no sign of revival

摘要

Toshiba says that 19,000 jobs will go. Fujitsu is jettisoning 16,000 workers. NEC is adding 4,000 jobs to the 15,000 it already plans to shed. Kyocera is cutting 10,000 and Oki Electric 2,200. And Hitachi, which has yet to break the bad news, may top them all with cuts expected to total 20,000. Were there any doubts about their health, there can surely be none now: Japan's lumbering electronics conglomerates are in pain.