Dead Company Walking

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Businesses are failing at a rate not seen for years. Anu Anand meets those dealing with the fall out and explores the role that high, as well as low, interest rates have played. In Japan, in the 1990s, the national economy was dominated by what became known as zombie companies. Many thousands of previously buoyant companies became choked by rising interest rates and the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble.