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In August 2018, Itochu acquired 8.6% share of FamilyMart which is Japan's second largest convenience store chain behind 7-Eleven, through TOB, which made Itochu the 50.1% shareholder. Itochu participated in its equity earlier in 1998, and, after merging other competitors including CircleK, acquired further share to be a 95% shareholder in 2021.
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In Japanese, the characters 中国 and the reading Chūgoku began to be used to mean "China" after the founding of the Republic of China. The same characters are used in Chinese to refer to China, but pronounced Zhōngguó, lit. "Middle Kingdom" or "Middle Country" (Wade Giles: Chung 1-kuo 2).
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Uichiro Niwa (丹羽 宇一郎, Niwa Uichirō) is a Japanese diplomat and businessman who served as the Ambassador of Japan to the People's Republic of China, president and chairman of Itochu Corporation, [1] and chairman of the Society of Global Business (SGB).
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Map of China's county-level divisions As of August 18, 2015, there were 2,852 county-level divisions: 1,408 Counties : the most common county-level divisions, continuously in existence since the Warring States period , much earlier than any other level of government in China.
Map of China is a 2008 sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. [1] The sculpture has been reported as resembling a park bench or tree trunk, [2] but its cross-section is a map of China. It is four metres long and weighs 635 kilograms. [1] It is made from wood salvaged from Qing Dynasty temples. [2] [3]