Asian perspectives of heterogeneity: don’t put carnivorous lions and herbivorous elephants in the same cage Here I cannot help feeling that this rule is quite congenial to the traditional Japanese, and probably Asian, view of what banks are. In Japan, loans constitute roughly half of corporate debt financing, and deposits roughly three quarters of banks’ balance sheets.
However, it is considered opportune to leverage on the favourable 2  prospects to accelerate implementation of structural reforms to unlock the country’s growth potential.