"The headwinds on this economy from restructuring - and the restructuring process still has a long way to go - will be around for some time, " says Russell Jones, chief economist at Lehman Brothers Japan.

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So it was that when a handful of bankers from Lehman Brothers met executives of Marubeni, one of Japan's largest trading houses, at Marubeni's headquarters across from the Imperial Palace last autumn, they never suspected that they were actually being drawn into a massive fraud.

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Japan's number two lender, the Mizuho Financial Group, loaned Lehman Brothers 289 billion dollars.

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