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Ex-heads of failed Japan bank acquitted

Japan's supreme court has acquitted three former executives of the now-defunct Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, which became a symbol of the country's banking crisis ...full story at Financial Times

from Financial Times on Sun, Jul 20 2008

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