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The Myth of the Main Bank: Japan and Comparative Corporate Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Yoshiro Miwa  and
J. Mark Ramseyer
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , Spring 2002 , pp. 401 - 424
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