What is ‘Samurai Market’
A slang term for the stock market in Japan. Samurai market is usually used buy non-residents of Japan, with a reference to the iconic Japanese warrior – the samurai.
Explaining ‘Samurai Market’
The term Samurai market was used in business slang but has become widely accepted, much like the “Yankee market” refers to U.S. markets and the “bulldog market” refers to the market in the United Kingdom.
Further Reading
- The Economic Rehabilitation of the Samurai in the Early Meiji Period – www.jstor.org [PDF]
- Credit Ratings and Spreads in the Samurai Bond Market – books.google.com [PDF]
- Seven samurai opening up the ivory tower? The construction of Newcastle as an entrepreneurial university – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply, Market Access, and Structural Transformation in Pre-War Japan – www.cambridge.org [PDF]
- The samurai bond market – fedinprint.org [PDF]
- The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply and Economic Growth in Pre-War Japan – academiccommons.columbia.edu [PDF]
- Why Japan needs to develop its corporate bond market – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- Municipal Bond Sales in Foreign Markets: Experience and Results – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
- Municipal Debt Issues in Foreign Markets: Managing Currency and Interest Rate Risk – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
