81.   Its shareholder meetings have regularly sparked protests in recent years.

82.   Keeping with tradition, nearly all Japanese companies held shareholder meetings on the same day Friday to counter extortionists who threaten to disrupt the gatherings.

83.   Koike allegedly used the money to purchase shares needed to gain admission to shareholder meetings at major Japanese brokerages.

84.   Many companies in Japan are suspected of making similar payoffs to racketeers who threaten to disrupt shareholder meetings with embarrassing revelations or shouting matches.

85.   Many other shareholders meetings Thursday were wrapped up in less than an hour with few objections or questions.

86.   Mizuno said the company plans to hold all its shareholders meetings on Sundays from now on.

87.   Most Japanese companies hold their shareholder meetings on the same day of the year, so racketeers will miss many of them.

88.   Proxinvest analyzes resolutions of shareholder meetings and advises its clients, mostly French funds, on how to interpret them.

89.   Previously, the minister of forestry, as chief commissioner of state timber companies, received requests for aid during annual shareholders meetings.

90.   Prosecutors say Koike made a comfortable living off buying stock to gain entry into shareholder meetings, then received payoffs by threatening to raise scandals in public.