Sharp Corporation is a Japanese electronics company. It is headquartered in Sakai, Osaka and was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912 in Honjo, Tokyo and established as the Hayakawa Metal Works Institute in Abeno, Osaka in 1924. Since 2016, it is majority owned by Taiwan-based manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., better known as Foxconn. Sharp's net sales reached 2.55 trillion yen in fiscal year 2022, according to Statista Research Department. This represents a slight increase from the previous year's figure of 2.5 trillion yen. Wikipedia