Japan's IT Industry: A Ray of Sunshine in the Economic Gloom

by Tomoo Matsubara

Currently, Japan is in the most severe economic recession the country has ever experienced. After the bankruptcy in 1997 of six securities firms (including two of the largest, Yamaichi Securities and Sanyo Securities), two big banks -- the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan and the Nippon Credit Bank -- formally announced insolvency in 1998. Thanks to the benevolent bail-out law for insolvent banks that the government hastily enacted and administered, these banks are now under government control.

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Japan's IT Industry: A Ray of Sunshine in the Economic Gloom March 1999