Record profits at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and at least 26 of the nation’s banks mask vanishing returns on lending in Japan that’s spurring them to venture overseas.
Funding costs and administrative expenses related to operating hundreds of branches exceeded what the two largest lenders made on domestic loans and interest-earning assets in the year ended March 31.
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