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If the arrest of financier Yoshiaki Murakami on suspicion of insider trading had happened a week earlier, perhaps Hankyu Holdings Inc. might not have decided to buy out Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
(Nikkei Business June 19, 2006)

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings set up via merger
Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 17:00 EDT
OSAKA - Two companies running trains between Osaka and Kobe merged into Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc on Sunday, creating Japan's third-largest railway operator excluding the nationwide Japan Railway group.
(Japan Today)

OSAKA MONORAIL CO.,LTD.

Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau

Kobe Electric Railway

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