Reuters: A Japanese ministry aims to reintroduce subsidies on solar power equipment in 2009 to help boost Japanese firms’ shrinking share in a 1 trillion yen (US$9.25 billion) market, just as Germany cuts state support for such gear. The move could give a boost to Japan’s Sharp Corp which fell behind Germany’s Q-Cells AG as the No. 1 supplier of solar cells in 2007, when China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd also nudged Kyocera Corp back into fourth place, analysts said. Officials at …