In addition, a piece of legislation last year introduced a framework intended to cope with market-induced-type systemic risk that could be triggered by such non-bank institutions as securities firms and insurance companies.
Growth strategies – however ideal they might appear – can only serve to raise suspicions regarding future sustainable growth, as well as add to the fears of fiscal bankruptcy and a large increase in taxation, if they result in a further ballooning of the fiscal deficit, because  BIS Review 67/2010  7  Japan suffers from by far the largest government debt of any industrialized country.