Saving the Sun is not simply about the fate of one Japanese bank．It is about the clash of two visions．．．and how hard it is to reconcile them．Both the paralysis that has gripped Japan as its economy shrinks and the human cost of that paralysis become more understandable by the time the book ends．

Saving the Sun tells the story of the world's largest private equity dealwhere American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitatingShinsei，a failed Japanese bank．Within that business saga is the dramatictale of Japan's brightest financial minds，the men who made theJapanese economic miracle come to life，and their struggle againstthe economic failure in the 1990s．Into this climate of despair，whereJapan seemed incapable of reviving prosperity,came a group of wilyand determined Americans who would discover just how different theJapanese really are．

 Note to Reader

 Foreword

 Prologue

 Chronology

PART I

 1．Samurai Bankers

 2．BIocked Reform

 3．Money Madness

 4．The Trillion-Yen Man

 5．The Bubble Bursts

 6．Takahashi's Revenge

 7．Onogi's Choice

 8．The Swiss Gamble

 9．Scapegoats and Seeds

PART Ⅱ

 10．An American Dream

 11．“Cowboy”

 12．Negotiations

PART Ⅲ

 13. Yashiro's Dream

 14．Culture CIash

 15．The Sogo Shock

 16．Homma's Death

 17．The Fight with the FSA

 18．Stalemate

 19．Success?

 20．The Bad Loan Surprise

 21．Saving the Sun?

 Epilogue

 Notes

 Notes on Bad Loans

 Sources and Bibliography

 Acknowledgments

 Index