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EMORY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REVIEW [Vol. 3
companies to be forced into bankruptcy, causing many investors to lose
significant financial worth.8 Clearly, financial statement fraud has adverse
effects on shareholders and must be stopped. However, these instances of
corporate misconduct are symptomatic of Japan’s record for poor corporate
governance.9 Accounting fraud is only one of many negative aspects stemming
from Japan’s poor corporate governance regulations, and the lack of corporate
oversight has negatively impacted Japan’s overall economy.10
According to the International Monetary Fund (“IMF”), there is a strong
link between the quality of a country’s corporate governance regulations and
the overall health of its economy.11 The IMF attributes Japan’s weak economy
to its lack of corporate governance.12 Specifically, in this case, these poor
corporate governance practices link directly to the abnormally high cash
holdings by Japanese companies.13 In 2015, The Economist reported that
Japanese companies were holding $1.9 trillion USD in cash, an amount
equivalent to almost fifty percent of the entire Japanese economy.14 This
alarmingly high figure suggests that the lack of corporate governance practices
is a large factor contributing to a stagnation of funds amounting to nearly a half
of the Japanese economy. Thus, improvements in Japan’s corporate
governance regulations may not only reduce corporate malfeasance but could
potentially spur economic growth.