Japan Times (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
OSAKA (Kyodo) Fuminori Yokogawa hit a two-run home run to contribute in an 18-hit attack as the Rakuten Eagles walloped the Orix Buffaloes 11-1 in a preseason game on Thursday. Yokogawa featured among four players who drove in two runs apiece and Hiroshi Katayama pitched six innings of one-run ball at Kyocera Dome. Read the full story
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Orix Auto Ups Targets For Car Sharing BusinessTOKYO (Nikkei)--Orix Auto Corp. has doubled vehicle and member targets for its car sharing program in the wake of stronger-than-expected demand.
PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 02/24/2009
Workforce Management Software Vendor Expects Continued Growth in 2009 (PRWeb Feb 24, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Fatigue_Management/solutions/prweb2171074.htm
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 02/24/2009
Japanese financial stocks tumble, with sector stocks outside the banking group extending losses after SFCG Co. filed for bankruptcy a day earlier and Nomura Holdings Inc. plunged after announcing a share-sale plan.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 02/23/2009
* SFCG says failed to secure finance amid credit tightening (Adds Shinsei Trust, Orix Trust statements)
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 02/20/2009
Lawmaker Questions Reveal Gap In Valuation Of 'Kampo' InnsTOKYO (Nikkei)--The tax assessment values of Japan Post Holdings Co.'s Kampo-no-yado leisure facilities were found to be much higher than their total book values, raising questions over the accuracy of the book prices of the properties initially slated for sale to Orix Corp. (8591).
altnews.com.au/drop aggregator (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
HONG KONG, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Asia Aluminum Holdings Limited ("AAH") and AA Investments Company Limited ("AAI," and together with AAH and their respective subsidiaries, "we") announce today that we intend to commence a tender offer and consent solicitation (the "Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation") for: read more
Japundit (Free subscription) | 02/16/2009
The yakuza invasion of Japan’s financial markets in recent years has been amazing and rapid. read more
Knuckle Curve (Free subscription) | 02/14/2009
One of the darkhorses in the 2009 World Baseball Classic will be Venezuela. The Venezuela roster is comprised almost exclusively of MLB talent. If they can get on a roll, the Venezuelan team is as dangerous as any team in WBC 2009. Abreu, Bob - Free Agent Alfonzo, Edgardo - Long Island Ducks Ascanio, José - Chicago Cubs Betancourt, [...]
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Internal affairs and communications minister Kunio Hatoyama is holding back Japan Post Holding Co.'s plan to sell 70 Kampo no Yado inns and nine housing facilities to a subsidiary of leasing company Orix Corp. He thinks the facilities' sale price of ¥10.9 billion — about one-twentieth the cost of the original investment — is too low and that the circumstances surrounding the bidding...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
DALLAS, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 6, 2009 a federal jury returned a 12.5 million dollar verdict for ORIX Capital Markets LLC ("ORIX") in the first major commercial internet defamation cases tried to verdict in Texas and one of the few tried to verdict in . The suit was originally brought by one of the defendants as an attempted class action securities case, but all of those claims...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Japan Post, Orix Agree To Cancel 'Kampo-No-Yado' Inn Network SaleTOKYO (Kyodo)--Communications minister Kunio Hatoyama said Friday that Japan Post Holdings Co. and leasing firm Orix Corp. (8591) have agreed to cancel a controversial 10.9 billion yen contract for Japan Post's sale of 70 ''Kampo-no-yado'' inns and nine housing facilities to Orix.
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Japan Post Officially Reverses Plan To Sell Facilities To OrixTOKYO (NQN)--Yoshifumi Nishikawa, president of Japan Post Holdings Co., on Friday told Communications Minister Kunio Hatoyama that his firm has reversed its decision to sell leisure facilities to Orix Real Estate Corp., with the cancellation effective Monday.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Maybe the days of saying anything about anyone online are over. On Friday, a Dallas jury awarded Orix $2.5 million in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages in what appears to be one of the state's largest libel and defamation verdicts, said Mike Lynn of the Dallas law firm Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox LLP, which represented Orix.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
From beat writer Henry Schulman: In...
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