Hostile bid subverts Japanese politeness
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Hostile bid subverts Japanese politeness

Oji Paper's bid for rival Hokuetsu breaches a Japanese taboo on hostile takeovers. It has also prompted some extraordinary, perhaps illogical, defence tactics. Is this the shape of things to come?

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