OSAKA -- A clean room at Sharp's display panel plant in Mie Prefecture, east of here, is a factory that never sleeps.
Inside its pristine walls, nine production lines operate 24/7, churning out 700,000 surgical masks per day.
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When Japan was experiencing a mask shortage last spring, Sharp decided to step in, starting production in an idled clean room. © Reuters
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