Gov't, ruling parties back completion of highway network

Gov't, ruling parties back completion of highway network

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Nobuteru Ishihara (C) is greeted by heads of four public highway corporations (R) at his ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 22 after the government and ruling parties endorsed a privatization scheme for the corporations. The scheme calls for privatizing the four highway builders into seven entities in fiscal 2005. (Kyodo)

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