{"id":127379,"date":"2019-11-07T16:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T07:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=127379&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T07:36:44","slug":"sony-to-expand-manufacturing-base-in-isahaya-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/sony-to-expand-manufacturing-base-in-isahaya-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to Expand Manufacturing Base in Isahaya, Nagasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corporation announced an additional investment into its manufacturing base in Isahaya, Nagasaki, on October 30. To meet the increasing demand for image sensors used for devices such as smartphone cameras, the company is set to open a new facility to produce semiconductors. The company targets to open the new factory in the fiscal year 2021. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.nagasaki.jp\/press-contents\/411760\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nagasaki Prefecture<\/a>, 10\/30\/2019<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sony-image-sensor.jpg?resize=1030%2C580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"580\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sony-image-sensor.jpg?w=1030&amp;ssl=1 1030w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sony-image-sensor.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sony-image-sensor.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sony-image-sensor.jpg?resize=1024%2C577&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sony-semicon.co.jp\/e\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sony-semicon.co.jp\/e\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corporation announced an additional investment into its manufacturing base in Isahaya, Nagasaki, on October 30. To meet the increasing demand for image sensors used for devices such as smartphone cameras, the company is set to open a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":127383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-127379","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-isahaya","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/127379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}