FOR over a decade Royal Dutch Shell, along with its Japanese partners, Mitsui and Mitsubishi, has been struggling to coax oil and gas out of the frozen seas off Sakhalin Island, in Russia's far east.

十多年来，英荷皇家壳牌公司及其日本合作伙伴，三井公司和三菱公司，一直试图劝诱俄罗斯，在其远东的萨哈林岛（库叶岛二号项目）附近冰封的海上开采石油和天然气。

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The share prices of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries rose as it emerged that the giant Japanese engineering conglomerates are in merger negotiations.

由于有消息称日立和三菱重工这两家日本工程公司巨头正在进行合并谈判，两家公司的股价随之上扬。

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Japanese Banks also fair well in this year's ranking, with Mitsubishi UFJ taking back the top Asian bank spot from ICBC.

日本的银行在今年的排名中也相当不错，三菱日联证券超过了工商银行重返亚洲银行的首位。

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The local arms of Toyota and Mitsubishi, while Japanese-owned, remain keen on retaining or even increasing local content.

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Meanwhile, DaimlerChrysler is handing responsibility for the Smart to Mitsubishi Motors, its new Japanese partner.

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Similarly, Ripplewood managed to recruit several senior Japanese to its board, including Minoru Makihara, then chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation, the trading and investment firm that epitomises the Japanese establishment.

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