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  • In the late 1990s, widespread fears about bank stability thanks to a nationwide financial crisis triggered a rush to convert assets to tansu yokin ( "drawer deposits").

    Under the Futon 2008

  • There's even a term for this hidden money in Japanese, "tansu yokin."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • When a bank accepts a customer's application for a loan of, say, a million yen, it simply adds the number one million yen to that customer's bank account ( "demand deposit" in the US, "futsu yokin" in Japan).

    Bill Totten's Weblog 2009

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