"Bad egalitarianism" is how Hisayoshi Katsumata, a professor of economics at Tokai University, describes such thinking.
In Tokai, Kinki, and Chugoku Shikoku regions the figures are 67 percent, 63 percent, and 68 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, Japan Atomic Power shut down the 1, 100-megawatt Tokai Daini nuclear plant on the north-east coast, the closest to Tokyo.
At the Tokai nuclear power plant, some 100 kilometers south of the Fukushima plant, a high level of radiation was observed.
Towa Real Estate, a developer affiliated with the big Fujita construction firm, has asked Tokai Bank to do much the same.
Sanwa is under pressure to act quickly, for its exposure to Daiei will double when it merges with Tokai Bank, another lender, in April.
Tokai Bank said this week that it will decide in December how big a chunk of its remaining non-performing loans to write off.
Japan had a reprocessing center in central Japan, called Tokai Mura, that harvested roughly seven tons of plutonium before the plant was shut in 2007.
"Both the US and Japanese stock markets are seen requesting a cut in interest rates to their monetary authorities, " said Hiroyuki Nakai, investment research manager at Tokai Tokyo Securities.
Yusuke Tsunoda, analyst at Tokai Tokyo Securities Co.
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But for every Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Sumitomo or Tokai trying, albeit belatedly, to clean up their balance sheets, there are dozens of lesser banks in Japan that continue to sweep their dreadful bad-debt problems under the carpet.
Developed by researchers at RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries (TRI), the new robot can lift a patient up to 80kg in weight off floor-level bedding and into a wheelchair, freeing care facility personnel of one of their most difficult and energy-consuming tasks.
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