Unable to raise money from banks or in the capital markets, Japanese companies stopped lending to each other: trade credit, which had accounted for about a third of all lending, dried up.

• 由于无法从银行或资本市场获得资金，曰本企业开始停止互相借贷：由此，占据了三分之一的借贷行为的商业借贷，枯竭了。