Les sarakin et la construction du marché du prêt à la consommation au Japon depuis les années 1960

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this article explores the evolution of the Japanese consumer credit market in parallel with the rise in household debt. It analyses the institutional environment, labour market changes and the transformation of borrowers’ motives, with a focus on the growth of the small loan market driven by the sarakin from the 1960s to the 2000s. It also examines the forces driving regulatory change by considering the tensions between stakeholders (government, banks, sarakin, borrowers) and their conflicts of interest, leading in fine to the revision of the Moneylenders Law in 2006. The revision of this law represents a major institutional change for the Japanese consumer credit market in general, and the personal loan sector in particular, with the fall of the sarakin.

Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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