A shopper passes by an advertisement poster of Sony at a store in Tokyo, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. Sony is reporting a bigger loss for the April-June quarter at 24.6 billion yen ($316 million) despite a sales recovery from a disaster-struck previous year. The Japanese electronics and entertainment company said Thursday its income was hurt by a surging yen, which erases overseas earnings, and by declining sales of liquid-crystal display TVs and video game machines.