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Chief executive Kazuo Inamori, the founder of hi-tech giant Kyocera, was brought in by the government to turn around the ailing airline, long a symbol of Japan's economic success.
BBC: JAL profits boosted by cost cuts
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The fate of the Long-Term Credit Bank, Japan's 10th-largest bank, has become a symbol of what's at stake.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia
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Increasingly, fighting became a symbol of struggles with personal demons -- a sign of individualism maturing in post-war Japan, says Natume.
CNN: The War Mangas