MITI's 'samurai plan' aircraft leasing scheme

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• Princes of the Yen whole source · open book

  In 1979, MITI thought that the scheme was a “trump card in reducing the surpluses” by an estimated $800 million in fiscal 1979 alone.17 The Ministry of Finance, worried that the IMF might see through the scheme, called it off after a year.

  chapter: 8. Mysterious Money: The Ebb and Flow of the Yen

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