Note 2-17

17 Then (the second half of the 1990s), the lending amount per case has been on the decrease. The only exception is in the retail industry, where the lending amount per case has been increasing due to a sharp decrease in the number of lending cases. The increase in the lending amount per case in the first half of the 1990s was not because of a decrease in the number of lending cases. The number of lending cases kept increasing in almost all industries until the mid-1990s.