Japan&#39;s Sumitomo tables UFJ bid
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The battle to form the world&#39;s biggest bank has intensified after Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group tabled an offer to buy Japanese rival UFJ Holdings.
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Shinsei Bank said Friday that it has a deal to acquire control of a consumer credit company from UFJ Holdings, a Japanese banking group which has been targeted for a takeover by two larger rivals.
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The High Court in Japan has approved the unification negotiations of UFJ Holdings and Mitsubishi group thereby paving the way for the world&#39;s largest bank.
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Daiei Inc. shares rose as much as 10 percent in Tokyo as individual investors bought in expectation the government&#39;s 707 billion yen ($6.8 billion) plan to rehabilitate Japan&#39;s third
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The battle to form the world's biggest bank intensifies after Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group tables an offer to buy Japanese rival UFJ Holdings.
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Text of report by Radio Nigeria from Abuja on 19 February  The Japanese government is to assist Nigeria in the installation of radio broadcasting facility.
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Japanese and US officials in Tokyo have reached a framework agreement that should permit the resumption of beef trade between the two countries.
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Japan announced a larger aid package to 12 Pacific island states totalling nearly 400 million dollars and secured their support for its bid for a permanent UN Security Council seat.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in talks with  the founding family Takefuji Corp., the biggest player in  Japan's $100 billion consumer finance industry, that may result  in the U.S. firm buying about a third of the company for more  than $2.7 billion, a financial source said.
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The European Union offers Japan a package of incentives to persuade it to give up its bid to host the world's biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
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UFJ Holdings Inc., Japan&#39;s fourth- biggest lender, said it hasn&#39;t finalized its earnings outlook. UFJ plans to eliminate more than 700 billion yen ($6.
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Steel Partners submits a proposal to buy-up more of Japanese brewer Sapporo.
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Dice-K arrived at spring training. And so did crowds of reporters, photographers and television crews who flocked to Florida to chronicle the $100 million Japanese ace's landing. That didn't count the handful of puzzled passers-by who wondered what all the fuss was about Monday at Tampa International Airport. It's all about Daisuke Matsuzaka.
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TOKYO The biggest takeover battle in Japanese history got even bigger on Tuesday, as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group sought to disrupt a rival&#39;s expansion plans with a $29 billion hostile bid for UFJ Holdings.
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Japan&#39;s Sumitomo Corp and UK broker Credit Lyonnais Rouse have settled a $1.1 billion (600 million pounds) suit in the High Court, drawing a line under a rogue trader scandal
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IN many markets, investor response to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group&#39;s 1-for-1 merger offer to UFJ Holdings would have been predictable and nearly instantaneous.
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Earlier, SMFG said it offered the one-for-one share exchange ratio to UFJ Holdings as part of its bid to win the support of UFJ for its merger proposal over a rival offer from MTFG.