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...Had the Asahi Shimbun not reported it on Monday, the guarantees may never have come to light....
...No price for the two brands has been indicated, but the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, reported at the weekend that the assets could be valued at as much as Y400bn ($3.4bn)....
...No price for the Peroni and Grolsch brands has been indicated, but Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, reported that the assets could be valued as much as Y400bn ($3.4bn)....
...In a rare example of open criticism against the Obama administration’s directive to airlines, Japan’s right-leaning Sankei newspaper said it would “undermine US-Japan co-ordination and benefit China”....
...Tokyo Shimbun, for example, raised the newsstand price for its morning newspaper from Y100 to Y110 this month – the first increase in 16 years – but left the price of a monthly subscription unchanged....
...Talk began to grow that the BOJ would make a further top up to its asset price program and when asked about one such story in the Sankei Shimbun, Economy minister Seiji Maehara said, “I can’t comment on...
...Olympus climbed 4 per cent to Y1,214 on an Asahi Shimbun report that the company was in talks to form a capital alliance with Panasonic or Sony to strengthen its balance sheet....
...Renesas Electronicsclimbed 7.4 per cent after the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the company plans to raise fresh capital....
...Renesas Electronics climbed 7.4 per cent to Y289 after Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the company plans to raise fresh capital....
...In Tokyo, Toshiba slid 1.7 per cent to Y292 but struggling Renesas Electronics bucked the trend, soaring 14.9 per cent to Y316 on a Mainichi Shimbun report that it was in talks with banks to secure up to...
...Sankei shares were untraded with a glut of buy orders, being notionally indicated at Y377, up 26.9 per cent form the previous session....
...Tocom, responding to a report in Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, that it had asked CME for capital as part of a business tie-up, said it “affirms that no such decision has been made”....
...Sentiment was damped after plutonium was found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, and by a report in the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper that Tokyo was considering temporarily nationalising Tepco...
...“There is a strong uncertainty about the Japanese economy,” Mr Machida said in an interview with the Asahi Shimbun, a newspaper....
..."We cannot help but have some misgivings about Inamori's role," the Yomiuri Shimbun said of the appointment. "He is 77 years old and is not necessarily well versed in the aviation industry....
...Mr Hatoyama had sought to block the reappointment of Japan Post’s president, a stance the mass circulation Yomiuri Shimbun found was backed by 65 per cent of voters....
...Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun, the Japanese industry daily, reported earlier on Tuesday that Toyota would produce the car in the UK from about 2012....
...By bidding together, the two firms – which already have a close relationship – would be able to lower their individual costs, and share the risk of the investment, Japan’s Sankei newspaper reported in February...
...The gloves are off in Tokyo as one of Britain’s most unloved but widely championed activist investors, The Children’s Investment Fund, goes full-frontal in its assault on Electric Power Development Co, the...
...Mr Itoyama, who has a 12.5 per cent share in TV Tokyo, gave as an example the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Group’s refusal to make clear to him Tokyo TV’s policy on anti-takeover measures....
...Isetan, the upmarket department store, rose 1.7 per cent to Y2,145 after Tokyo Shimbun, a local newspaper, said it was in talks about a limited tie-up with Tokyu Department store....
...News of the talks first emerged in the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s biggest daily newspaper, although both companies refused to comment....
...The Nikkei 225 – the other main Japanese index – did not have an official closing price because the outage created a computer problem in the afternoon at the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Japanese newspaper...
...The article in the Yomiuri Shimbun, citing unnamed people, claimed that the company “window-dressed” its account by transferring profits from three affiliates to cover a Y1bn deficit....
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