Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
BEIJING – Power cuts are a bigger problem for Fuji Heavy Industries than earthquake and tsunami damage to suppliers, Fuji says in remarks suggesting that aerospace supply-chain problems in Japan will be temporary. All of Fuji’s product lines are influenced by the difficulties, says a spokesman for the company, whose aerospace products include Japanese military aircraft and major assemblies for foreign aircraft builders, including Boeing.
Power cuts are a bigger problem for Fuji Heavy Industries than earthquake and tsunami damage to suppliers, Fuji says in remarks that suggest that aerospace supply-chain problems in Japan will be temporary. All of Fuji’s product lines are influenced by the difficulties, says a spokesman for the company, whose aerospace products include Japanese military aircraft and major assemblies for foreign aircraft builders, including Boeing.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Madhu Unnikrishnan (Washington), Leithen Francis (Singapore)
Soma is a Japanese coastal city less than 100 km (60 mi.) south of Sendai, about 200 km from the epicenter of the massive earthquake that devastated much of the northern part of the country on March 11.
