from yesterday's Nikkei

トヨタ、営業利益赤字１５００億円　今期戦後初　生産体制　抜本見直し　販売減と円高直撃

Toyota Motor Corporation is worsening its business performance. On the 22nd,it announced its estimate for the business result in the term through the end of March,2009.It revealed that it will decline to about 150 billion yen loss in its consolidated operating profit and loss account.This resulted from cars' sales decline across the world triggered by the global financial crises and strong yen,and will make the company the deficit this business term in its operational activity for the first time after World War Ⅱ,while it attained the record high profit in the previous term. It is obvious that the company will have to drastically revise its production scheme in these circumstances.

from today's Nikkei

国際協力銀の融資範囲拡大　途上国ビジネスを支援　財務省が特例措置　金融危機に対応

The Finance Ministry has recently decided to extend its financial support to Japanese companies which are engaged in exports to developing countries or the businesses there.Specifically,the ministry will expand the activity area of Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the international division of Japan Finance Corporation,with an exceptional treatment, and then allow JBIC to extend loans until the end of fiscal 2009 to Japanese export-related comapnies or Japanese major firms advancing into developing countries,which is at present not permitted under the present rule.This is aimed at preventing domestic firms engaged in developing countries' businesses from shrinking due to the fund problems,affected by the current global financial crises.