1.   Battles between the long-term credit banks and the Finance Ministry are as rare as labor strikes in Japan.

2.   But corporations can easily issue stock or bonds and do not need the long-term credit banks so much anymore.

3.   But there were also opponents among the farm credit banks that own the B shares and the presidential appointees who arguably represent the nonvoting, publicly traded C shares.

4.   Edelman also fielded questions on why the farm credit banks keep a much higher percentage of reserves against their delinquent loans than Farmer Mac does.

5.   It would, for example, enable financial institutions to offer services that have been dominated by long-term credit banks and trust banks or brokerage houses.

6.   Long-term credit banks and trust banks are so exposed to the jusen debacle that restructuring through savage cost-cutting and mergers is probably inevitable to ensure survival.

7.   Long-term credit banks fell.

8.   Long-term credit banks slipped.

9.   Nippon Credit is the smallest of the long-term credit banks, which are private banks that were formed by the government to provide long-term capital to Japanese industry.

10.   Nippon Credit is the smallest of the long-term credit banks, which are private banks that were formed by the government to provide capital to Japanese industry.