Japan Still Beating China on One Score: World’s Top Creditor
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Japan’s foreign investments and assets climbed to a record in 2014, keeping it in front of China and Germany as the world’s top creditor nation.
The reading stretches Japan’s lead as No.1 creditor country to 24 years, with 71 percent more in net assets than China, even after its Asian neighbor surpassed it to become the world’s second-largest economy in 2010.