Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, one of the companies in the old Mitsubishi keiretsu, also sees gold in green.

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REITs offer investors a middle way between the high-risk, high-return vulture funds and stodgy, low-return Japanese property developers, such as those attached to the Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo keiretsu.

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There, it has been helped not by DaimlerChrysler but by the marketing prowess of its keiretsu partner, the Mitsubishi trading company.

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