The Japanese government launched a number of policies to expand domestic demand and open domestic markets to foreign businesses, let its currency appreciate, provided tax credit incentives for imports, and lifted financial regulations.

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To diffuse this risk Partridge assembles a broad mix that includes foreign and domestic stock indexes, credit-default swaps and futures on commodities like crude oil, cattle, hogs and corn.

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Few, if any, foreign banks will give them credit lines, and healthy domestic banks are refusing to lend to their weaker brethren.

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In the 10 years ending Dec. 2009, securitizing bank loans, parceling them up and then selling the debt to investors both foreign and domestic added 325 billion pounds to the growth in U.K. bank lending, expanding new credit by more than 20%.

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