TOKYO (Standard&Poor's) Feb. 28, 2011--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today withdrew its 'A+' bank survivability assessments on six Japanese banks: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. (A+/Stable/A-1), Mitsubishi UFJ Trust And Banking Corp. (A+/Stable/A-1), Mizuho Bank Ltd. (A+/Stable/A-1), Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. (A+/Stable/A-1), Mizuho Trust&Banking Co. Ltd. (A+/Stable/A-1), and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (A+/Stable/A-1). We withdrew the bank survivability assessments on the aforementioned Japanese banks, following discontinuation of the Japan-specific criteria that we had applied to structured finance ratings for assessing counterparty risk. Standard&Poor's had been assigning its bank survivability assessments to a number of Japanese banks after introducing the assessments to the Japanese market in 2002. In accordance with the Japan-specific methodology and assumptions
