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A visitor at Sony Corp. showroom in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district checks one of the latest models of the Walkman portable music players Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. Sony said Thursday, Sept. 22, it will cut 10,000 jobs globally, slash the number of factories and cut costs by 200 billion yen (US$1.8 billion) in an ambitious restructuring bid to revive its stumbling electronics business. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)