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Jul 27, 99, 11:19 am
With slumping profits and 12 billion in debt, JAL is under attack from its largest individual shareholder-Eitaro Itoyama, who says he'll lauch a hostile takeover bid to oust management and save JAL. He claims to be assembling investors to buy a controlling 30% stake. Thuh he has claimed to be doing this in the past, he now says he "means business."