CANON SUSPENDS OPERATIONS IN 8 FACTORIES IN NORTHERN JAPAN

CANON SUSPENDS OPERATIONS IN 8 FACTORIES IN NORTHERN JAPAN

Canon Inc., the world’s largest maker of digital cameras, will suspend operations at eight production and development bases in northern Japan, according to a statement from the company today.

The factories are based in prefectures including Ibaraki, Fukushima and Tochigi affected by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it triggered.Canon’s plant in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, which makes lenses and steppers, and another factory that produces inkjet printer devices in Fukushima may take “more than two or three days” to resume operations, according to Hiromoto Fujimori, a Tokyo-based spokesman.