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Japan Tobacco's Bright Light ($$) 

Japan Tobacco picks Koizumi as CEO  

Japan Tobacco's Bright Light 

JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia; British American Tobacco Australasia Limited & Ors v The Commonwealth of Australia [2012] HCATrans 92 (18 April 2012) 

JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia; British American Tobacco Australasia Limited & Ors v The Commonwealth of Australia [2012] HCATrans 93 (19 April 2012) 

• JT International SA v Commonwealth of Australia; British American Tobacco Australasia Limited & Ors v The Commonwealth of Australia [2012] HCATrans 91 (17 April 2012) 

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Japan Tobacco: to buy back Y250 bln of its shares if govt sells 

Japan Tobacco's fiscal-year profit rises 32%  

• Tobacco companies launch legal battle over warning labels 

Hit by federal regulations and massive class action lawsuits, two of Canada's tobacco companies have struck back with legal action of their own.

Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. and JTI-Macdonald Corp. have launched proceedings in Ontario Superior Court to attempt to strike down cigarette package warning regulations that came into effect last fall.

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• Japan Tobacco to Break Free of Government 

Japan Tobacco Inc, the world's third-largest tobacco company by sales volume, will for the first time install top management that aren't former bureaucrats, the WSJ reports. The company, half-owned by the Japanese government, is hoping to become a more efficient company in order to compete with competitors including British American Tobacco PLC and Philip Morris International Inc. The government is also planning to cut its holding in the company, in part to raise funds for post-quake reconstruction.

Since 1985, at least one of the posts of president and chief executive has been held by a former finance ministry official. Japan Tobacco's incoming chairman Hiroshi Kimura said, however, that there was no deliberate intention to not employ ex-bureaucrats in the post.

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Japan Tobacco Nominates New Top Management ($$) 

Japan Tobacco, Torii report positive top-line results from Phase III Zerenex study  

Japan Tobacco Considers Emerging-Markets Deals  

CORRECT: Ex-Bureaucrats Exit Japan Tobacco Management Duo As Govt Share Sale Looms  

Japan Tobacco names Koizumi as president