The slightly faded graph above is scanned from an article the December 28, 2010 Yomiuri Shimbun.
The Micron and Nanya tie-up plans had been reported earlier in the week by the Yomiuri Shimbun.
The Yomiuri Shimbun addressed the issue in a September 4 editorial, calling for prompt and effective corrective action.
The January 1 Yomiuri Shimbun features an interview with the Japanese Federation of Industries (Keidanren) Chairman, Mr. Yonekura Hiromasa.
Recently, however, Mr Watanabe has ordered the Yomiuri Shimbun to change its tune.
Editorials in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun today are appealing for a quick end to this highly disquieting situation.
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In Tokyo, shares of Elpida Memory Inc. rallied 6.6% after the Yomiuri Shimbun said the chip maker would seek a capital tie-up with U.S. firm Micron Technology Inc.
The top right illustration from the January 20 Yomiuri Shimbun presents the three big old age social programs by the cost of each in the FY 2011 budget proposal.
On the other hand, opposition to a rising mood of nationalism is coming from an unlikely source from within the conservative establishment itself: the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's indeed the world's biggest-circulation newspaper.
Commenting on the meeting convened by PM Kan on February 5, the Yomiuri Shimbun appealed to all political parties to refrain from political posturing and advantage-seeking, and to join in positive, constructive discussion in order to reinforce the welfare system.
Under Mr Fukuda, power has flowed back to the factions and to the party gerontocrats notably two former prime ministers, Yasuhiro Nakasone (89) and Yoshiro Mori (70) as well as Tsuneo Watanabe (81), publisher of Japan's biggest-circulation newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Hard-headed observers like the editorialists at the Yomiuri Shimbun pointed out that several former prime ministers (including Liberal Democratic Party PM Aso, who set a deadline FY 2011) called on the Diet to pass the tax and spending reforms needed to prevent a fiscal meltdown.
Japan's major newspapers, including the Yomiuri Nihon Keizai Shimbun (the so-called Nikkei, the largest business paper) and the Kyodo press wire were all allocated choice downtown real estate for their headquarters by the Japanese government in the 1960s at bargain prices.
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