Japan&#39;s Toppan to Buy DuPont Photomasks
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Japan&#39;s Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. said on Tuesday it would buy DuPont Photomasks Inc., a US-based maker of glass plates used in chip production, for 71 billion yen ($640 million).
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Japan&#39;s three major banking groups will invest in a bank set up by the country&#39;s top retailer Aeon Co., press reports said Saturday.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be in talks with the founding family of top Japanese consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp. for a stake of over &#36;2.74 billion, a source told Reuters on Friday, heating up competition among foreign investors to enter a &#36;97 billion industry.
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Japan Airlines Corp. said Wednesday it will sign a contract in the spring to buy 30 7E7 Dreamliners from Boeing Co.
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U.S. cosmetics and health care company  Neways Inc. is on sale in Japan for about $600-700 million,  with private equity houses among the bidders, sources familiar  with the process said on Tuesday.
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Canon Inc. (7751.T) will invest about 55  billion yen ($451 million) to build a new factory in Japan to  double its production capacity of image sensors used in digital  cameras.
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DuPont agreed to a settlement Thursday that could be worth more than $340 million to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging the chemical giant contaminated a West Virginia community's water supply with a key ingredient used in its Teflon products.
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Eastman Kodak Co. says it&#39;s agreed to buy the Imaging business of National Semiconductor Corp., which develops and manufactures complimentary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor devices.
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Japanese auto parts maker Asahi Tec Corp.  (5606.T) said on Friday it will buy U.S. rival Metaldyne Corp.  in a deal totaling $1.2 billion, including debt.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be in talks  with the founding family of top Japanese consumer finance firm  Takefuji Corp. for a stake of over $2.74 billion, a source told  Reuters on Friday, heating up competition among foreign  investors to enter a $97 billion industry.
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French retail giant Carrefour SA is planning to sell its operations in Japan, the Wall Street Journal reports on its website.
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Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is building its commitment to Linux, investing US&#36;3 million for a stake in mobile middleware developer MontaVista Software.
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TOKYO/LONDON  - Japan Tobacco Inc. said on Friday it had agreed to buy British cigarette maker Gallaher Group Plc for 7.5 billion pounds ($14.7 billion) in cash, the biggest-ever foreign acquisition by a Japanese company.
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Tokyo, May 30 (Jiji Press)--Mitsui Chemicals Inc.  said Wednesday it will spend some 6 billion yen to boost its production capacity of cycloolefin copolymer, a material for pickup lens used in DVD players and recorders.
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A Japanese printing company is buying Austin-based DuPont Photomasks Inc. (Nasdaq: DPMI) for $650 million. Tokyo-based Toppan Printing Co.
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Japan Tobacco Inc has offered to buy British rival Gallaher Group in a deal that could be the largest-ever acquisition by a Japanese firm worth at least 15 billion dollars plus debt.
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CHIBA, Japan, Oct 6 (Reuters Life!) - Forget the giant  flat-screen TVs and snazzy mobile phones. At Japan's biggest  technology trade show on Friday, Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, aimed  his camera at the women in miniskirts lining up in front of the  gadgets to wave visitors goodbye.