Nobody can accuse J.P. Morgan of being a Johnny-come-lately in the area of trade finance in Japan. The company underwrote $150 million in disaster relief bonds in Japan in 1924, the year following the Great Kanto earthquake, with the first dollar-denominated bond issued by the Japanese government. It opened a branch in Tokyo in 1947 and now has about 1,400 people in Japan.
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