Finmeccanica, 'opportunities in Japan'

(ANSA) - Tokyo, August 3 - Italian State-controlled defense and transport conglomerate Finmeccanica is important for relations between Italy and Japan, Italy's Premier Matteo Renzi said on Monday after meeting with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.
    ''Finmeccanica has chosen as partner Hitachi'', Renzi noted, saying the Italian conglomerate had many opportunities in the country ''especially after that proactive pacifism that Abe has explained to us with the helicopters manufactured with Kawasaki, as well as a number of opportunities'', Renzi noted. Abe on Monday also spoke about ''cooperation on security'' with Italy. In February, Finmeccanica agreed to sell its controlling stakes in Ansaldo STS, which designs and manufactures railway signalling systems, and Ansaldo Brera, a rail transport engineering company, to Japanese multinational Hitachi.