1.   Hashimoto said he would continue to provide information about the financial situation of the housing lenders.

2.   Nippon Housing and Daiichi Housing are the only housing lenders whose stock is publicly traded.

3.   Regional banks founded Chigin Seiho Jutaku Loan, one of the seven insolvent housing lenders.

4.   The newly appointed finance minister, Wataru Kubo, is expected to deflect opposition criticism over the housing lender bailout.

5.   An endorsement of the establishment of a special institution to take over bad debts of the housing lenders and write them off by using public funds.

6.   And banking stocks fell on concern about the fate of a government plan to deal with problem loans at bank-affiliated housing lenders, traders said.

7.   An unpopular government plan calling on taxpayers to help fund the liquidation of the housing lenders is being debated in the Diet.

8.   And analysts say the payout will climb a lot higher in coming years, since most of the collateral held by the housing lenders is property.

9.   And that is what makes what is happening with the housing lenders so unusual.

10.   And yet the housing lenders still owed trillions of yen to the banks and agricultural cooperatives from which they borrowed.