Meanwhile, government lenders, like the Japan Development Bank, are handing out cheap money to car makers, steel companies and supermarket chains, further easing fears about jobs.

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Mitsubishi is also said to be seeking an injection of tens of billions of yen from the Japan Development Bank, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Friday.

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He recently nominated Haruhiko Kuroda, who is president of the Asian Development Bank, to become Japan's next central bank governor.

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"We want to achieve the 2 percent target set by the government and Bank of Japan at the earliest possible date, " Haruhiko Kuroda, currently president of the Asian Development Bank, told lawmakers Monday.

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But, according to the Asian Development Bank, 60% of Asia's exports (not including Japan's) still go to America, the European Union and Japan.

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The United States should take the lead in creating an international support group for Nicaragua (modeled after that organized to assist Guyana) consisting of the United States, Japan, Venezuela, Mexico and the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.

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