Summer’s Wrapping Up

LEDE ONWe’re nearing the end of summer (often defined as ending with Labor Day here in the US). Many of you have been vacationing in inflationville, and are getting ready to head back to work. So here’s the question: how many photos did you take? —————————— NewsKumamoto Back OnlineThe earthquake in Japan that shut down the Sony facility that makes image sensors, began a staged restart on August 4th, about a week after the 7.1 magnitude tremor hit nearby. Full production resumed on August 19th, and things moved much faster than what happened in 2016, when a previous quake shut down the same plant for three-and-a-half months. Meanwhile, the TSMC facility in nearby Kikuyo has also come back online, as has the Renesas plant in Nishiki. —————————— News and CommentaryNikkei’s Total Camera Market SharesEvery year about this time we start getting the final reports on how things went the previous year for all the Japanese camera companies globally (as opposed to regionally). The first one up…