All eyes are on how the government will try to prop up the nation's banks and get them to shed their nonperforming loans. With many experts viewing capital injections as a key step in this regard, we take a closer look at the issue:

Didn't the government inject banks with capital a couple of years ago?

The government injected a total of 10.4 trillion yen into 32 banks between 1998 and March, as displayed on the accompanying chart.