Five years ago, there was genuine hope for Japan Display. With $2bn of backing from a Japanese state-backed fund, engineers of small screens at Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi had joined forces in 2012 to become the key supplier of Apple’s iPhone displays. Just two years later, a profitable Japan Display, armed with the biggest share of the global smartphone screen market, raised $3.1bn in an initial public offering. It was a moment of triumph for the economy, trade and industry ministry that all-Japan solutions could work.
5年前，人們曾對日本顯示器公司(Japan Display)滿懷真誠的希望。2012年，在一家日本政府支持的基金出資20億美元的支持下，索尼(Sony)、東芝(Toshiba)和日立(Hitachi)的小屏幕設備工程師兵合一處，打造出蘋果公司(Apple) iPhone顯示屏的這一關鍵供應商。僅僅兩年后，已實現盈利并在全球智能手機屏幕市場占據最大份額的日本顯示器公司，通過首次公開發行(IPO)融入資金31億美元。對于日本經濟產業省(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)來說，舉國產業體制(all-Japan)的解決方案能夠奏效，這是一個勝利的時刻。