Japan to press charges against 4 firms over maglev train contracts

Kajima

23/03/2018 01:02

TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - The Japan Fair Trade Commission
said on Friday that it would press criminal charges against four
construction firms for suspected collusion over contracts for an
$80 billion high-speed magnetic levitation (maglev) train line.
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    The targeted firms include Shimizu Corp  1803.T , Kajima
Corp  1812.T , Obayashi Corp  1802.T  and Taisei Corp  1801.T .

 (Reporting by Yoshiyasu Shida
Writing by Minami Funakoshi
Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)
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