Wilson / Nippon Credit Bank / Cooperative Credit Purchasing Company / Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan / Toho / /
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Bankruptcy / /
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The Japanese banking crisis in the 1990s * Kazuo Ueda Introduction This short note first provides a brief history of the Japanese bad loans problem. It then discusses the current state and the causes of the