1.   Analysts contacted by Business Times said the companies would welcome the prospect of funds injection.

2.   The fund injection is expected to be part of an anti-deflation package being prepared by the Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

3.   The huge fund injection also shows how the central bank has dangerously overextended its function as a lender of last resort.

4.   The public fund injections would give the banks enough capital to erase losses on stock holdings, said Yanagisawa, who heads the Financial Revitalization Commission.

5.   Yanagisawa also said that the public fund injections would give the banks enough capital to erase losses on stock holdings.

6.   Banks gained on the growing anticipation of a public funds injection.

7.   Minister of State for the Financial Services Agency Hakuo Yanagisawa stuck to the stance that public fund injections were not necessary.

8.   State Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy Heizo Takenaka said the government would decide on possible public fund injections before the end of March.

9.   State Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy Heizo Takenaka said the government would decide on the possibility of public fund injections before the end of March.