1.   The government crafted the bailout scheme with little public discussion and without determining who was responsible for the losses.

2.   The problems facing the bank are so extensive that some analysts question efforts to draw other major banks into a bailout scheme.

3.   The postal savings accounts and the postal insurance may move to sell bonds to help the bailout scheme for Hokkaido, traders said.

4.   The problem, however, is that the Finance Ministry has not yet worked out a bailout scheme that it could turn to immediately in a crisis.

5.   Recent bailout schemes involving American museums and private corporations also failed.

6.   The city government used a similar bailout scheme to the one it proposed for AZLK in a rescue for struggling truckmaker AMO Zil over the summer.

7.   Finance Minister Wataru Kubo, a Social Democrat, told reporters that his ministry was not considering freezing or scrapping the bailout scheme from the budget plan.

8.   He told Hashimoto that the founding banks should clarify their responsibilities in the bailout scheme.

9.   The conservative LDP, lead by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, is the largest force in parliament and has worked out with the finance ministry the controversial bailout scheme.