In search of a new furrow

摘要

Agricultural reform poses a challenge for Japan's agricultural bank. Norinchukin bank has two faces. One is that of a sophisticated international financial institution with assets of about ¥62 trillion ($525 billion), making it Japan's fourth-largest commercial bank. The other reflects the bank's roots as a small quasi-public institution set up in 1923 to manage the deposits of millions of farmers, fishermen and forest workers.