Mitsubishi Corp. has proposed increasing its stake in convenience store operator Lawson Inc. and may make it a subsidiary as the country’s biggest trading house shifts away from commodities.
The company currently has a 33.4 percent stake in Japan’s third-biggest operator of convenience stores.
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