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2013/02/15

Olympus オリンパス

Last year, Olympus was involved in one of Japan’s biggest accounting frauds. As a result, it seemed possible that it could be broken up or forced to change by outside shareholders. However, the company won support from similar companies and Sony bought a 50 billion yen minority stake in it.

Business has continued as usual, with good units covering bad ones. Olympus shares have rallied. Still, a break-up makes sense.

The company has a very good medical equipment division but the rest of the company, including cameras, ranges from average to terrible.

Buying Olympus means getting a stock where the 56 billion yen of operating profits from medical equipment are more than twice those of the overall business. Losses in its camera business doubled, too. Of course, Olympus has a plan. What ailing Japanese technology company does not? The plan is still centred on cameras and life sciences (microscopes, for example) as well as medical equipment.

Key Vocabularies :

involved in [other] 事件に関与していること, fraud [noun] 詐欺、ごまかし, outside shareholders [other] 社外株主、その会社に直接関与していない株主, minority stake [noun] 投資家や別の会社による企業の議決権株式の50%未満の所有権, rally [verb] 病気の後に回復すること、結集する,

Quiz

本文の内容や単語について問う問題です。問題は全部で5問あります。是非チャレンジしてみて下さい。

1. The opinions of outside shareholders were ignored.

2. The company had huge support from companies like Sony.

3. The board voted against the break up.

4. The government did not want to see Olympus broken up.

1. Life sciences.

2. Cameras.

3. Accounting.

4. Medical equipment.

1. healthy

2. struggling

3. strong

4. stable

1. promoted by

2. forecast to

3. focused on

4. proposed for

1. A way of making the accounting division more accountable.

2. Ways to jump-start their medical supplies division.

3. Different ways to innovate so that their weaker divisions start making profits.

4. Getting rid of the medical equipment division.

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Olympus オリンパス

Quiz

1.
According to the article, why was Olympus not forced to break up after the huge accounting scandal last year?

2.
Which division is Olympus’ most successful one?

3.
What ailing Japanese technology company does not?

4.
The plan is still centred on cameras and life sciences (microscopes, for example) as well as medical equipment.

5.
Based on the information in the article, what is Olympus’ plan going to center on?

Olympus オリンパス

Quiz

1. According to the article, why was Olympus not forced to break up after the huge accounting scandal last year?

2. Which division is Olympus’ most successful one?

3. What ailing Japanese technology company does not?

4. The plan is still centred on cameras and life sciences (microscopes, for example) as well as medical equipment.

5. Based on the information in the article, what is Olympus’ plan going to center on?

1.
According to the article, why was Olympus not forced to break up after the huge accounting scandal last year?

2.
Which division is Olympus’ most successful one?

3.
What ailing Japanese technology company does not?

4.
The plan is still centred on cameras and life sciences (microscopes, for example) as well as medical equipment.

5.
Based on the information in the article, what is Olympus’ plan going to center on?