Japanese Banking Industry

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Rohwer (1998) paints a disturbing picture of the Japanese Banking Industry. He states that much has happened in America's S&L crisis in the early 1990s, bad banks need to be shut down or taken over, good banks recapitalized, bad loans written off, and the collateral underlying them (usually real estate) disposed of at fire sale prices (Rohwer, 1998, 22).

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"A Study of theJapanese Banking Industry
Introduction
Rohwer (1998) paints a disturbing picture of the Japanese Banking Industry. He states that much has happened in America's S&L crisis in the early 1990s, bad banks need to be shut down or taken over, good banks recapitalized, bad loans written off, and the collateral underlying them (usually real estate) disposed of at fire sale prices (Rohwer, 1998, 22). Most theorists and analysts point out that the bad debt problem of Japanese banks could amount to upwards of 25% of that country s GDP, implying that a solution (if available) is bound to be enormously painful and costly (Rohwer, 1998, 22).


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