The LDP still insists that the LTCB is too big, and too exposed internationally, to fail.

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Opposition leaders oppose that idea, arguing that LTCB instead ought to be temporarily nationalized and, if necessary, shut down.

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The LTCB is a case in point: despite rumors of the bank's imminent collapse, the government so far has not publicized the scope of the bank's problems.

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