Originally posted by rawr Olympus doing better than Sony in mirrorless is a surprise.
And what is this 'PFU' company dominating scanner sales?
Fujitsu. They've had big success in recent years because their scanners are said to be easier to use to digitize paper documents to share with smartphones, iPads and so on. People in Japan have trouble storing all the books and manga that they want to keep, so there's been a bit of a boom in scanners optimised for this.
scansnap.fujitsu.com/jp/
Regarding Sony, I don't remember ever seeing them in the number one spot in Japan. Olympus has always been on top, and when you add Panasonic, m4/3 is the clear market leader. Canon is interesting. I actually think the M3 is a pretty nice camera.
I have to say I'm a bit surprised to see Casio being into the top three for compacts, though.
I think Ricoh has benefited more than Nikon and Canon from Sony effectively quitting the "DSLR" game. I guess their A-mount stuff was categorised as DSLR.