Episode 395 - A Slice of the Pie, Part 2

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week: a combination of political scandals, tabloid journalism, institutional inertia, and of course the goddamn Swiss lead to the long, slow, death of LTCB.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. In lieu of the usual ad read, I just wanted to give you all a quick heads up.
0:06.8	This is episode 395, which means we are coming up on episode 400. I'm not sure exactly how long it's
0:15.5	going to be, probably sometime in August. I am going to miss a couple of weeks of recording over
0:20.3	the summer, so I'm
0:21.2	not quite sure when. But we're coming up on it. 400 episodes after 9, 8 years, something like
0:29.3	that, which is pretty incredible to think about. And as has been tradition on the podcast,
0:35.9	every 100 episodes, I'm going to do a Q&A episode.
0:40.2	So if you have questions for me about the podcast, about me up into a limit, about some random Japan fact you want to know more about, anything at all.
0:50.9	Please send them my way.
0:52.7	You can do so via the website,
0:54.6	via the comment section,
0:56.4	via the Facebook page,
0:57.7	Facebook.com slash history of Japan podcast.
1:00.9	Let me know what you want to know about.
1:02.6	I look forward to seeing your questions,
1:04.2	and I look forward to putting together the episode.
1:29.4	I'm going to... Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 395, A Slice of the Pie, Part 2.
1:34.5	Project yourself back, my friends, to the year 1993.
1:37.5	The world is a rapidly changing place.
1:43.6	Some things are now in, like neon pants, Jurassic Park, and trying to blow up the World Trade Center.
1:50.0	And some are now out, like George H.W. Bush and the very concept of Czechoslovakia.
1:57.0	Among the things now on the outs in this watershed year was the unconditional support the long-term credit bank of Japan had previously provided to clients like EIE and its spendthrift CEO
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