Caught out with high levels of debt during the 1991 asset price crash, many Japanese firms then accumulated significant rainy-day funds to shield themselves against a future crisis. That trend intensified after the global financial crisis – when large-scale bankruptcies were avoided – and it leaves Japanese firms much better placed to weather the coronavirus storm than their counterparts abroad.
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