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<FONT face=Arial color=black 
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">11/09 
10:13P (RT) ANALYSIS-GDP data may show Japan recovery on last 
legs
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Story 
1151 (I/JP, I/ASIA, I/MCE, I/ECI)
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    By Stuart 
Grudgings
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    TOKYO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - 
Yoshiharu Taniguchi is a
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">disappointed 
man.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    A rapid rebound in Japan's 
economy this year was supposed to
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">help 
fire sales of the high-tech ceramic chips that his 
company
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">is a 
world leader in. It never happened.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    "Our expectations proved to 
be wrong," the 66-year old
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">president 
of Nippon Ceramic said from his western Japan 
office.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    "We had expected a rapid 
V-shaped recovery, but it's been
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">much 
more gentle."
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    If economists are right, 
Taniguchi should prepare for more
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">disappointment 
in the months ahead.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Even the mild recovery now 
seems to be on its last legs as a
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">global 
slowdown hits exports and consumers wrap up for a 
chilly
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">winter 
of falling incomes and financial anxiety.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Gross domestic product 
figures for July to September out on
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Wednesday 
are expected to show the economy inched ahead, but 
many
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">economists 
warn that could be the last growth for some 
time.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    A fourth recession in a 
decade may have already begun, adding
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">to the 
pressure on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as 
he
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">struggles 
to reform the economy while keeping it 
afloat.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    "This is about as good as 
it's going to get during this
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">cycle," 
said Jeffrey Young, an economist at Nikko Salomon 
in
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Tokyo, 
who expects the economy to have grown by 0.5 percent 
in
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">July-September 
but then shrink in the next two quarters.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    A group of 25 analysts 
polled by Reuters turned in an average
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">forecast 
of a 0.4 percent rise from the previous quarter, 
slower
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">than the 
0.6 percent rise in April-June, when Japan 
scrambled
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">clear of 
its worst recession since the war.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    DROPPING THE 
BATON
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    That recovery was fuelled by 
a strong rise in exports -- and
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">in turn 
industrial production -- that now appears to have 
stalled
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">as the 
United States, Japan's biggest export market, 
stumbles.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Net exports are expected to 
have made a negative contribution
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">to GDP 
in July-September for the first time in a year, 
and
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">economists 
are hard-pressed to find an area of Japan's
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">deflation-racked 
economy that can pick up the baton of 
growth.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    "The pause in exports has 
come at rather an unfortunate time,
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">just 
when it looks as if domestic demand was starting to pick 
up.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The risk 
is that it chokes that off prematurely," said 
Richard
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Jerram, 
an economist at ING.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Surprising resilience in 
long-stagnant consumer spending in
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">recent 
months may be the only thing keeping the recovery 
on
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">track. 
Household spending leapt 5.4 percent in September, for 
a
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">fourth 
straight year-on-year gain.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Analysts have suggested that 
stingy consumers may have
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">finally 
started to spend because they see little point in 
putting
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">their 
money into the depressed stock market or the shaky 
banks.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    But most economists are 
sceptical that consumer confidence,
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">which is 
already showing signs of faltering, can survive a 
winter
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">of 
rising job insecurity and falling incomes, with the 
prospect
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">of war 
in the Gulf to boot.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">   "If the income numbers we're 
getting are anywhere close to
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">the 
truth, it's going to be difficult for consumption to 
keep
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">defying 
gravity...It's pretty ugly," said Young.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Unemployment is stuck near 
record highs and job insecurity is
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">rising 
as the government prepares to implement recently 
unveiled
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">plans to 
tighten the screws on banks and troubled 
firms.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Nor is life getting any 
easier for those with jobs. Annual
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">winter 
bonuses are expected to see a record fall of around 
six
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">percent 
as firms step up their cost-cutting drive.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    FACTORY 
SLOWDOWN
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Output at Japan's factories 
and refineries is also showing
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">signs of 
tailing off as industrial giants like Fujitsu Ltd 
and
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Hitachi 
Ltd feel the chill from falling exports and cut 
their
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">earnings 
targets for this business year.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Another Reuters poll, this 
time of 20 economists, forecast a
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">5.2 
percent monthly rise in September core machinery orders, 
a
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">forerunner 
of capital spending that will be released on 
Monday.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    But rather than marking a 
recovery in firms' confidence, the
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">rise 
would only be a technical rebound from a heavy fall 
in
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">August. 
For the whole third quarter, the government 
estimates
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">machinery 
orders fell 3.9 percent.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    One positive sign is that 
firms' inventories remain near
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">14-year 
lows, but the export slowdown is threatening this, 
too.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Economists will be watching 
closely this week for evidence
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">that 
firms are starting to build up stocks again, 
signalling
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">weakening 
demand and a further slowdown in output in the 
future.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">   <SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> JUST 
RESTING?
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Not all analysts are 
prepared to write Japan off as headed
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">inexorably 
for recession.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    "So far at least, it's been 
more of a loss of the momentum
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">that 
we'd been building in the first half rather than an 
actual
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">downturn...There's 
a sense we've levelled off," said David 
Cohen
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">of 
S&P/MMS International in Singapore.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    ING's Jerram noted, however, 
that a pause followed by renewed
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">growth 
has been a rare event in Japan. He said the last time 
was
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">in 1995, 
when the Kobe earthquake, a strong yen and 
fiscal
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">tightening 
combined to temporarily halt a recovery.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    One thing most agree on is 
that the economy will get little
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">help 
from policymakers, who must have looked enviously at 
the
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">United 
States last week when the Federal Reserve slashed 
interest
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">rates in 
an effort to kick-start growth.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    Japanese interest rates are 
already close to zero and the
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">huge 
public debt precludes any big fiscal stimulus, while 
the
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">government's 
recent plan to speed up the disposal of bad 
bank
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">loans 
disappointed those who had been looking for decisive 
action
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">to end 
the policy paralysis that has hobbled growth for a 
decade.
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes">    ((Stuart Grudgings, Tokyo 
Newsroom +81-3 3432 8656
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> stuart.grudgings@xxxxxxxxxxx))
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN 
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> REUTERS
<FONT face=Arial color=black 
size=2><SPAN 
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Rtr 
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