Private Credit in Japan

THE LEAD|March 9, 2023

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This past week we visited our clients and friends in Tokyo. The last time we did, three months before Covid, Japan’s GDP had ended modestly down 0.2%. During 2020 it plunged 4.3%; about twice as sluggish as the US…

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