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Tokyo As An International Capital Market--Its Economic And Legal Aspects, Mitsuru Misawa
Tokyo As An International Capital Market--Its Economic And Legal Aspects, Mitsuru Misawa
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The internationalization of the Japanese capital market began in 1955, but for a considerable length of time the market served only as a source of foreign capital needed to cover the deficits in the nation's balance of payments. It was not until after 1970, when the Japanese balance of payments showed a steady surplus, that the Japanese market could accommodate the issue and acquisition of foreign securities on a full-fledged scale, and that Tokyo could become a truly international capital market. This trend, however, proved to be short-lived, for the steep rise in the cost of oil imports has recently …