With  6  BIS central bankers’ speeches  regard to equipment, there were cases in which ships, machine tools, and construction machinery were used as collateral. B. The bank’s measures following the great east Japan earthquake  In less than two weeks, one year will have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011.
Foreign reserves, I am pleased to say, have held up very well this year, helped by the strong growth in domestic exports and higher tourism receipts as well as lower import demand. Reserves are currently around $ billion, equivalent to 4.0 months of import cover. Not too long ago, foreign reserves had reached critical levels of below 2 month of imports.