Staff writer
Japan's bankers group, once labeled as secretive and cozy with the government, is changing.
When the group changed its name from the Federation of Bankers Associations of Japan to the Japanese Bankers Association on April 20, it also overhauled its structure to allow individual banks to directly belong to the group -- instead of solely through regional bank associations as in the past.
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