Kevin Buckland, Shigeki Nozawa, and Kazumi Miura, Japanese Choose the Mattress Over Banks. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 6, 2016.
Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Depositors have withdrawn $365 billion to stash at home
(b) There is no need to read the text, which is about one consequence of Japan's negative interest rate, which "applies to just some of the reserves Japan's banks deposit at the Bank of Japan. There's no plan now by banks to charge retail depositors' accounts instead of paying interest." (quoting the text)
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