1.   Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto can say that he won, because the budget bill still provides money to liquidate the jusen.

2.   The new company will try to recover the loans after the jusen are liquidated.

3.   Kubo said a new organisation to liquidate the jusen would make every effort to collect remaining bad loans and curb likely losses.

4.   Matsushita said the Bank of Japan had not decided how it would respond to requests to provide funds to Deposit Insurance Corp. to liquidate the jusen.

5.   The government spokesman said it would take years to liquidate seven jusen if corporate rehabilitation law were applied to seven jusen firms.