JAPAN - JULY 28: Takashi Kawamura, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hitachi Ltd., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Hitachi Ltd., Japan's third-largest manufacturer, offered to buy out five publicly traded subsidiaries and affiliates for 282.2 billion yen ($3 billion) to help speed up business decisions and reduce overlapping costs. (Photo by Toshiyuki Aizawa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
