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...“There is less room for conventional cost-cutting and the momentum is increasing for mergers and acquisitions and consolidation,” says Keiichi Ito, chief quantitative analyst at SMBC Nikko Securities....
...Other candidates for the governor job include Hiroshi Watanabe, chief executive of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation, and professors Kikuo Iwata and Takatoshi Ito....
...Murata, another maker of specialised smartphone components, plans to increase production capacity for ceramic condensers by 25 per cent....
...“It’s full-fledged deflation,” says Dairo Murata, retail analyst at Credit Suisse in Tokyo....
...Yoshimi Watanabe, financial services minister, has vehemently opposed moves to restrict foreign investment in airports, which he has criticised as isolationist....
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