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Mitsubishi Corp and Itochu trimmed dollar-forward hedge ratios in quarterly disclosures as the yen slid past 153 per dollar, forcing trading houses to balance import costs against offshore asset marks.
Kirin froze three distributor price lists within 48 hours of the Fair Trade Commission’s dawn searches, while Asahi and Suntory filed sworn statements on how they set wholesale beer margins.
TEPCO Power Grid is soliciting emergency transmission work while landslides keep crews from reaching damaged feeders across northern Chiba.
Fair-trade investigators searched all four majors that dominate Japan’s beer market in a wholesale price-cartel probe, the first such beer enforcement action in agency history.
Privatization moved highway debt off the government books, but your toll still flows through a lease payment to a bondholder agency you never see on the sign.
Tokyo will let academics work with anonymized lender data as early as this fiscal year, hoping outside eyes can spot credit risks supervisors miss.
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