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...called "creative destruction" the U.S. allowed in the 1990-91 recession and after the savings and loan collapse of 1988. Tokyo said it wanted to avoid layoffs, that companies would recover when the economy perked up. The real story is that Tokyo's instinctive reaction has been to dole out government contracts to construction companies and make banks provide cheap capital to keep retail empires going. (In January, the government backed a bailout of struggling Daiei Inc., a retailing giant that needs $3 billion from its main creditor banks to stay afloat.) This kind of propping up and bailing...
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