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	Management Ventures Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seiyu reported a net loss of JPY12.32 billion, or USD117 million, for the third year in a row, which the company attributes to warmer winters, typhoons, and competitive food prices.
		Seiyu reported sales of JPY1.03 trillion for the 2004 fiscal year, a -3.7% decrease from numbers reported for the previous year.
		Seiyu has also announced that it will be making changes within its board of directors.
	www.mventures.com - !http: //www.mventures.com/News/newsdetail.asp?NewsID=33402 (108 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Wal-Mart's Seiyu in 2003 Loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seiyu, which has begun implementing the parent's computer-linked management supply system that allows suppliers to monitor product sales in stores, has said the effects of the integration are unlikely to be seen for at least two more years.
		Seiyu, owned 37.8 percent by Wal-Mart, the world's biggest supermarket firm, reported a group net loss of 7.09 billion yen ($67.23 million) for the business year ended December 31.
		The figures follow a group net loss of 90.84 billion yen for the year ended February 2003, when Seiyu took a massive charge to clean up its balance sheet after Wal-Mart took a majority stake.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/02/17/wal_marts_seiyu_in_2003_loss (641 words)

	Uechi Ryu Kenyukai History
		Seiyu became a student at Kanbun Uechi's Tebira dojo in 1939.
		Seiyu Shinjo was the organizer and tournament director.
		Narahiro Shinjo, Seiyu's second son, is often lost in the shadow of his famous brother.
	www.alandollar.com /uechi/kenyukai_history.htm (1308 words)

	Foods For Trade - Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Japanese retailer Seiyu, an affiliate of US retail giant Wal-Mart, has posted a net loss for the first half, as sales were hit by weak consumer spending.
		Seiyu, Japan’s fourth-largest retailer, reported a group net loss of ¥8.43bn (US$76.7m) for the six-month period, compared to a year-earlier net loss of ¥22.39bn.
		In August, Seiyu forecast a first-half net loss of ¥10bn, blaming sluggish consumption and weak demand for summer items as Japan experienced cool, rainy summer weather.
	www.foodsfortrade.com /ftn/print.php?id=1039 (126 words)

	Northwest Koryukan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By the end of the 1930s, each karate group was called upon to register with the butoku-kai for official sanctioning, and in 1938, a meeting of the Butoku-kai's official karatedo leaders was held in Tokyo.
		Usually, in a legalistic and officious way these groups would simply adopt or adhere to some even higher authority or granting agency to further legitimize their actions Recognition by the Japanese Ministry of Education was the ultimate sanction for individuals and groups in these times.
		For example, the ranking was not consistent from group to group in the upper levels.
	www.northwest-koryukan.com /belts.htm (2423 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, has maintained strong ties with Seiyu, the key to its expansion plans in Japan, where notoriously fickle consumers and complicated distribution systems have thwarted many foreign retailers, including France's Carrefour (CARR.PA: Quote, Profile, Research), that entered the market on their own.
		The U.S. firm, which has an option to boost its stake in Seiyu to 50.1 percent by the end of 2005, was widely expected to exercise the option and to inject fresh capital into Seiyu this year to prevent it from falling into negative net worth.
		Seiyu said the capital increase was aimed at stabilising its financial base and raising funds for capital expenditure.
	today.reuters.com /investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2005-09-30T100602Z_01_T139173_RTRIDST_0_RETAIL-JAPAN-SEIYU-UPDATE-2.XML (347 words)

	Wal-Mart to up stake in Seiyu-paper - Boston.com - Asia - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Seiyu is a big topic for the market today, so that's helping to draw attention to retailers," said Toshihiko Matsuno, assistant general manager of investment research at SMBC Friend Securities.
		Seiyu's finances have also been battered by a prolonged weakness in Japanese consumer spending and unfavorable weather, and it has posted net losses for three straight years.
		A Wal-Mart spokeswoman said Seiyu was considering renovating about 200 of its 405 group stores in the five years through 2009, and said the newspaper report was likely based on speculation that Seiyu would need fresh capital to do so.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/05/wal_mart_to_up_stake_in_seiyu_paper?mode=PF (575 words)

	Seiyu Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seiyu Group (西友グループ) is a Japanese operator of supermarkets, shopping centers, and department stores.
		The company also operated a department store in Sha Tin, Hong Kong; this store has been sold to to the local Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. but continues under the same name (Seiyu) and with Japanese pretensions.
		Please note that the name "Seiyu Group" really refers to an association of companies, but that The Seiyu, Ltd. is the parent, or primary company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seiyu_Group (162 words)

	Wal-Mart, struggling in Japan, plans majority stake in retailer: report
		Seiyu has posted net losses for the past two years as the "everyday low price" motto of Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, flops in Japan.
		Seiyu said in a statement "nothing has been decided" on the Wal-Mart issue but that the company would promptly announce any decisions.
		Wal-Mart has an option to raise its stake in Seiyu to more than 50 percent by the end of this year and to 67 percent by the end of 2007.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=50990 (385 words)

	Struggling Japanese retailer says it's finally got the hang of Wal-Mart
		Seiyu chief executive Masao Kiuchi (L) announces his resignation as chairman Noriyuki Watanabe looks on in Tokyo.
		Seiyu said it expected a brighter future after adapting to the ways of top shareholder Wal-Mart, whose mass-market model has been foreign to Japan.
		Seiyu expects its fourth year of losses this fiscal year.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=61308 (462 words)

	DSN Retailing Today: Seiyu adopts Wal-Mart's U.S. characteristics
		To make sure associates are on the same page with new initiatives, Seiyu held a managers meeting in March where Wal-Mart chairman Rob Walton and International Division ceo John Menzer spoke to Seiyu associates who listened to a translation of the presentation through headphones.
		The emphasis was on some of the changes that have been made, the potential that exists in the market and the structural reform underway throughout the broader retail industry.
		Seiyu reported a net loss of $771 million on sales of $9.4 billion during the fiscal year that ended Feb. 28, 2003.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FNP/is_18_42/ai_108312303 (788 words)

	Forbes.com: UPDATE 2-Wal-Mart's Seiyu to slash workforce by 26% (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seiyu, however, chalked up a net loss of 8.4 billion yen ($79.05 million) in the half year that ended in August, hit by deflation and weak demand.
		Seiyu has been implementing the U.S. parent's sophisticated computer-linked management-supply system that allows suppliers to monitor product sales in stores, but the benefits of the integration are unlikely to be seen for at least two years.
		Seiyu said the early retirement scheme targets employees aged between 30 and 58 and runs for one month through Feb 15.
	www.forbes.com /newswire/2004/01/16/rtr1214197.html (576 words)

	ET 04/04: Groups call on Wal-Mart to influence retailer to end sales of whale and dolphin meat in Japan
		Seiyu, Ltd. is a major distributor of whale, dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) products.
		Seiyu is also selling products from Japan's coastal hunts for 'small cetaceans' - dolphins, porpoises and small whales - that are killed in the thousands in unregulated and unsustainable hunts around the coast of Japan.
		Forty of the 55 Seiyu group stores visited by EIA investigators sold 'salted whale meat', sometimes also labeled as small cetacean (dolphin, porpoise or small whale) from Sanriku, the area where the Dall's porpoise hand harpoon hunt takes place.
	www.sdearthtimes.com /et0404/et0404s14.html (730 words)

	EIA Home- The Environmental Investigation Agency [ investigating and exposing environmental crime ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seiyu is selling the meat and blubber from whales caught by Japan’s controversial ‘scientific’ whaling fleet.
		Seiyu is also selling products from Japan’s coastal hunts for ‘small cetaceans’ — dolphins, porpoises and small whales which are killed in their thousands in unregulated and unsustainable hunts around the coast of Japan.
		The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established in 1946 and is recognized by the United Nations and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as the body responsible for the global management and conservation of whales.
	www.salvonet.com /eia/cgi/news/news.cgi?a=200&t=template.htm (1053 words)

	Seiyu set to slash workforce - Financial Times - MSNBC.com
		Seiyu plans to increase the number of part-time employees to 85 per cent of total staff by 2007 from the current 73 per cent.
		This is Seiyu's third round of job cuts in two years but is more aggressive and targeted than previous rounds.
		Seiyu's path to recovery, even with Wal-Mart's guidance, has not been smooth. The company was forced to raise 7.7 billion yen in August from shareholders, including Wal-Mart, to boost its depleted capital.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3979805 (536 words)

	History of Uechi Ryu-Seiyu Shinjo
		Seiyu Shinjo was exposed to this unprecedented learning opportunity for nine years.
		This dojo, now owned and operated by Seiyu's eldest son, Kiyohide Shinjo, still operates on the same site as it has for three successive generations.
		Seiyu Shinjo and the Kadena Dojo in 1970.
	www.alandollar.com /uechi/hist_seiyu.htm (345 words)

	Update - Wal-Mart Partner Seiyu Deepens Loss Fcast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)*
		Seiyu said it now expected a net loss of 83 billion yen ($700 million) for the 2002/03 business year, compared with an October forecast for a loss of 21 billion yen.
		*Seiyus group** interest bearing debt stood at about 610 billion yen as of the end of February 2002.
		Seiyu cut full-year sales estimates by two percent to 1.14 trillion yen from an October estimate of 1.16 trillion yen.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/851890/posts (939 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com
		Seiyu Chief Executive Officer Masao Kiuchi said he will step down to take responsibility for a continued slump in sales and profits, although he will remain at the firm to ensure ties with Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer.
		Chairman Noriyuki Watanabe will take over the top management position at Seiyu, Japan's fourth-largest retailer, which has long struggled to be compatible with the US retail behemoth.
		The burden is gone as Seiyu staff have grown used to the Wal-Mart system after using it for about a year, Kiuchi said.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_world_business/print/158895/1/.html (338 words)

	CNN.com - Wal-Mart set to boost Japan presence - Nov. 28, 2002
		Seiyu stock jumped 3.28 percent to 378 yen on Thursday with the deal looking increasingly likely.
		That's when Seiyu completed the sale of its Tokyo City Finance Co. subsidiary to the U.S. investment fund Lone Star Group, which is also taking on claims of around 33 billion yen ($270 million).
		Seiyu predicts it faces a net loss of 21 billion yen ($172 million) for the business year through to next March.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/11/28/japan.walmart (322 words)

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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/August-20 (7687 words)

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		Seiyu is pushing restructuring to focus on its primary supermarket operations.
		It plans to cut the group's firms to about 25 by fiscal 2001 from 102 in the first half of fiscal 1997.
		Seiyu holds 95 percent of Asahi Medix, and Seibu the remainder.
	www.atimes.com /bizasia/AL18Aa01.html (1288 words)

	Japan Documentation Center Titles
		A survey on employment of college graduates and employment management during the changing period, an end to early or prolonged job seeking activities by graduating students -- employment activities by corporations in the second year since the Employment Agreement was abolished.
		An interim report of the Study Group on Structural Reform in Fund Flow in the 21st Century.
		A survey on bankruptcy of group companies -- group bankruptcy of major companies, 22 cases since May 1999 with rapid increase approaching the level of the cases for the previous year.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/jdc/jdccntindx.html (8519 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Seiyu, which has a payroll of 35,000 at 405 supermarkets and department stores, forecasts a 7.5 billion yen loss this year as it battles bigger rivals such as Aeon Co. Sales in the 14 trillion yen market rose for the first time in four months in August.
		Seiyu, which hasn't said when it expects to return to profit, will issue 115 billion yen of new common and preferred equity, with a tentative price of 205 yen per share for the common stock.
		Seiyu said it will use proceeds from the sale to renovate and open outlets and repay debt.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000101&refer=japan&sid=amTEIa3usfHE (437 words)

	How the masters got their ranks: the origins of karate ranks
		Usually in a legalistic and officious way these groups would simply adopt or adhere to some even higher authority or granting agency to further legitimize their actions.
		Shimabuku's assumption of the tenth dan, and his wearing of a red belt, was not without dispute, and it was controversies of this type that led most Okinawan leaders to eschew the red belt altogether.
		The center karate leaders continued on their own or became part of other groups, using authority inherited mostly from members of one of the original Okinawan organizations, the most significant is the All Okinawa Karate and Kobudo Rengokai.
	www.judoinfo.com /karateranks.htm (2504 words)

	Encyclopedia: Seiyu Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In addition to its Japanese operations, Seiyu also has department stores in Singapore.
		This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality.
		5.3 Seiyu in Hong Kong (Under separate ownership)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Seiyu-Group (285 words)

	TheDeal.com - Japan Retail Group Seiyu Finds Help
		Seiyu is Japan's fifth-largest chain store group, but it is especially strong in the Tokyo area, where 60% of its sales originate.
		Nomura Wasserstein Perella, a joint venture between the Nomura group and the New York M&A advisory house, acted as intermediary between Seiyu and Sumitomo on the domestic portion of the deal.
		Seiyu is expected to use the ¥15.6 billion it will obtain from the share issue to expand its Tokyo branch network and develop an e-commerce strategy.
	www.thedeal.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDStandardArticle&c=TDDArticle&cid=1003865114108 (431 words)

	Encyclopedia: Koichi Kitamura (seiyu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1931 in Osaka) is a For the article about the company named Seiyu, see Seiyu Group.
		Seiyū (声優, also known as Seiyuu or simply Seiyu) is a Japanese term that roughly equates to a voice actor/actress for radio, television and video games.
		seiyu who works for Mausu Promotion (マウスプロモーション),formerly known as Ezaki Productions,is a Japanese talent management agency representing a fair number of prolific seiyu.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Koichi-Kitamura-%28seiyu%29 (424 words)

	CNN.com - Wal-Mart moves to control Seiyu - Dec. 12, 2002
		Seiyu said Thursday Wal-Mart will buy 192.8 million new shares at 270 yen each to take its stake from 6.1 percent to 33.4 percent, Reuters news agency reported.
		Wal-Mart formed a comprehensive business tie-up with Seiyu in March, and in May obtained equity warrants to purchase Seiyu gradually.
		These warrants allow Wal-Mart to increase its stake to 33.4 percent at the end of this year, to 50.1 percent by the end of 2005 and to 66.7 percent by the end of 2007.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/12/12/japan.walmart.biz (285 words)

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