Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- I. Introduction -- II. Overseas Exposure of the Japanese Financial System -- III. Channels of Spillovers -- A. Direct Spillovers -- B. Funding Market Spillovers -- C. Institutional Spillovers -- IV. Conclusions -- Tables -- 1. Consolidated Foreign Claims of...

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