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...In the same month Fujio Mitarai, chief executive of Canon and former head of Japan’s powerful Keidanren business lobby, won just 50.6 per cent approval as investors punished him for heading an all-male board...
...Fujio Mitarai, the chief executive of Canon and a towering figure in corporate Japan, scraped through with just 50.59 per cent support....
...The stakes have been raised significantly, said people within the investor relations departments of three companies, after the Canon chief and former Keidanren head Fujio Mitarai received a low 50.59 per...
...As Canon kicked off Japan’s corporate earnings season in late April with an upgrade to its annual profit guidance, chief executive Fujio Mitarai welcomed the yen’s sharp decline as “a big plus” for the printer...
...“Starting from his reforms to mass graduate recruitment, [Nakanishi] made proposals to improve labour mobility and strengthen Japan’s competitiveness,” said Fujio Mitarai, the chair and chief executive of...
...Which must certainly have been swirling in Mr Abe’s mind last week as he swung and putted against the Japan Inc titans, Fujio Mitarai and Sadayuki Sakakibara....
...Another possible buyer for the stake would be Canon, whose chairman, Fujio Mitarai, said last week that he would “positively consider” an investment....
...The prime minister spent January 3 at the Three Hundred Club playing Fujio Mitarai and Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman and president of the Keidanren business association....
...Fujio Mitarai, Canon chief executive, told reporters last week he would boost the share of manufacturing handled in Japan from 42 per cent of sales today to half by the end of next year, focusing on high-end...
...Fujio Mitarai, the 76-year-old chairman of Canon, is to resume day-to-day control of the Japanese camera and printer maker for the first time in six years, in a move the company said was designed to strengthen...
...Canon’s “new” broom is Fujio Mitarai, who replaces Tsuneji Uchida as president in addition to already being chief executive and chairman....
...Ideally, says chief executive Fujio Mitarai, the group would simply reflect the appreciation of the yen in the pricing of its products....
...“Capital investment is still falling and businesses have quite a strong feeling of excess capacity,” Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the business lobby group Keidanren, told reporters....
...“We would like a scientific discussion and a national debate,” said Fujio Mitarai, Keidanren chairman....
...Buyers were scarce: the head of the Keidanren, Fujio Mitarai of Canon, dismissed the party’s plans to improve economic growth as “weak”....
...“'We have entered an age where a genuine transition of government is possible for the first time in the postwar history of constitutional politics,” Fujio Mitarai, Keidanren chairman was quoted by Kyodo...
...“We would like the DPJ to carry out discussions that transcend party lines and produce concrete results,” Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Keidanren, the country’s biggest business lobby, said in a statement...
...The Keidanren – headed by the indomitable Fujio Mitarai, chairman of Canon – is resisting an initiative by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to require listed companies to appoint outside directors...
...After Fujio Mitarai, now Canon’s chairman, took control that year he dumped almost everything except profitable cameras, printers and photocopiers....
...However, the idea of a broader programme of government share buying to support the market was backed on Monday night by Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the influential Keidanren business lobby....
...Fujio Mitarai, head of the powerful Keidanren business lobby and chairman of Canon, the office equipment maker, called on the government on Monday to pass the supplementary budget as soon as possible and...
...Fujio Mitarai, chairman of Nippon Keidanren, also said in an interview that he was interested in pursuing bilateral trade agreements with both the US and the European Union irrespective of whether the Doha...
...Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the influential Keidanren business lobby, said Japanese stocks had been subjected to selling that had taken prices to levels not reflecting their business performance....
...Fujio Mitarai, head of the Keidanren, Japan’s most important business association, vented his frustration at what many described as the irresponsible timing of Mr Abe’s resignation....
...Fujio Mitarai, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, also backed Mr Abe, saying his policies were correct, even if his scandal-ridden cabinet needed an overhaul....
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