{"id":2793,"date":"2009-01-19T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2009-01-19T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T13:12:36","slug":"mizuho-reacts-to-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/19\/mizuho-reacts-to-financial-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizuho Reacts to Financial Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.financeasia.com\/article.aspx?CIaNID=94281\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/media.marketwire.com\/attachments\/200708\/357192_MizuhoLogo2006_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"91\" \/>Mizuho Bank is making some changes at the top of their corporate heirarchy<\/a> in response to the financial crisis.\u00a0 I had heard and read some comments that Mizuho and the Japanese financial sector&#8217;s exposure to the subprime mortgage crisis and other issues facing American banks was not as great.\u00a0 However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financeasia.com\/article.aspx?CIaNID=94281\" target=\"_blank\">this article in FinanceAsia.com<\/a> indicates Mizuho may have some significant problems, including a poorly timed investment in Merrill Lynch and losses relating to the Lehman bankruptcy, though it&#8217;s hard to gague from the article exactly how bad things are.<\/p>\n<p>I share this not to turn JetWit into a financial commentary blog but just as an indicator of Japan-related trends, since the fortunes of many in the JET alumni community, and perhaps the JET Program itself, are tied to the state of the Japanese economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mizuho Bank is making some changes at the top of their corporate heirarchy in response to the financial crisis.\u00a0 I had heard and read some comments that Mizuho and the Japanese financial sector&#8217;s exposure to the subprime mortgage crisis and other issues facing American banks was not as great.\u00a0 However, this article in FinanceAsia.com indicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-J3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}