Japanese Digicam Growth Figures Out!

From the Imaging-Resource comes the following:

The PC Watch website in Japan has posted figures for digicam sales from the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association. Shipments for the period Oct-Dec '98, covering 19 Japanese manufacturers as well as one unnamed foreign manufacturer, totalled 1,073,000 digital cameras worth 52,450,000,000 yen (US,438,677).

Of these cameras, 395,000 (37%) were sold in Japan, with the remaining 678,000 (63%) sold overseas. Total shipments are expected to reach 3,900,000 for the 1998 fiscal year, with a value of 180,000,000,000 yen (US,480,628,444). JEIDA expects the digital camera market to reach 6,000,000 units with revenues of 400,000,000,000 yen (US,290,285,432) for the 1999 fiscal year (April '99 to March 2000).