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		</div><p>Sony&#8217;s fiscal first-quarter profit has nearly quadrupled from a year earlier, boosted by its lucrative image sensor division and other businesses.</p>
<p>The figures highlight a gradual recovery at the Japanese electronics and entertainment company.</p>
<p>Sony reported an 80.9 billion yen April-June profit, up dramatically from 21.2 billion yen in the same period a year ago.</p>
<p>Quarterly sales gained 15% to 1.86 trillion yen.</p>
<p>Sony, whose sprawling business spans finance, films, video games and consumer electronics, is seeing better results at its various units, including games, imaging products, semiconductors and home entertainment systems.</p>
<p>Sony, which makes the Spider-Man films and the PlayStation 4 games console, stuck to its annual forecast for a 255bn yen profit, up dramatically from 73 billion yen posted the previous fiscal year.</p>
<p>Also helping Sony&#8217;s bottom line was the absence of the damage it suffered from the April 2016 earthquake in south-western Japan that shut down its semiconductor plant, and gains from insurance recoveries related to that quake, it said.</p>
<p>Sony long symbolised Japan&#8217;s spectacular rise after its defeat in the Second World War, but it fell behind powerful rivals such as Samsung, of South Korea, and Apple, of the US, in flat-panel TVs, smart devices and other gadgets.</p>
<p>The Tokyo-based company has found it hard to do well constantly in all its sectors, but it has shifted to focusing on businesses where it can turn a profit.</p>
<p>It has been reshaping its business by focusing on high-end cameras and video games and selling assets, including its Vaio personal computer business.</p>
<p>Its TV division lost money for years but has recently recovered.</p>
<p>PlayStation 4 sales and the contribution from Sony&#8217;s virtual reality headsets have helped rebuild its reputation for combining technology and entertainment prowess.</p>
<p>Sony&#8217;s computer chip sector has also fared relatively well recently on the growth of image sensor sales for mobile products.</p>
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