that was our beijing director-general yoshio nishikawa. i'm lisa komiya in beijing. >>> major japanese financial group resona holdings has decided to raise $8 billion in additional funds through stock offerings to pay down its public debt. resona received more than $36 billion in taxpayer money by 2003 to pull itself out of financial trouble. it still hasn't paid back nearly $20 billion of the debt. the financial group decided to issue up to 1.3 billion new ordinary shares this month and in february it plans to use part of its past profits and sebd a total of more than $10 billion back into the state coffers this time. resona says it will pay back all of the debt over the next five years. >>> japan's defense ministry launched a process to select a new generation of mainstay combat aircraft by the end of 2011. defense minister toshimi kitazawa attended the first meeting of a team set up within the ministry to select the next mainstay fighter for japan. the midterm defense buildup program endorsed by the government last month called for japa

that was our beijing director-general yoshio nishikawa. i'm lisa komiya in beijing. >>> major japanese financial group resona holdings has decided to raise $8 billion in additional funds through stock offerings to pay down its public debt. resona received more than $36 billion in taxpayer money by 2003 to pull itself out of financial trouble. it still hasn't paid back nearly $20 billion of the debt. the financial group decided to issue up to 1.3 billion new ordinary shares this month and in february it plans to use part of its past profits and sebd a total of more than $10 billion back into the state coffers this time. resona says it will pay back all of the debt over the next five years. >>> japan's defense ministry launched a process to select a new generation of mainstay combat aircraft by the end of 2011. defense minister toshimi kitazawa attended the first meeting of a team set up within the ministry to select the next mainstay fighter for japan. the midterm defense buildup program endorsed by the government last month called for japa