OSAKA (Kyodo) Hanshin Electric Railway Co. is asking Keihan Electric Railway Co. to buy some Hanshin shares from financier Yoshiaki Murakami’s investment fund, which became Hanshin’s largest shareholder last fall, industry sources said Wednesday.
Hanshin is making the request through Daiwa Securities SMBC Co., which is lead underwriter of Hanshin shares, they said.
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