Sogo to ask banks to forgive loans

Sogo to ask banks to forgive loans

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoichi Yamada, president of Sogo Co., reads from a sheet of paper at a news conference in Tokyo on April 6. In an unprecedented move in Japanese corporate history, Yamada said his company will ask creditor banks to forgive claims on loans worth 639 billion yen.

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