The central bank has already purchased 906 billion yen of shares from Japan's largest banks.

Indeed, central banks purchased 4.8m ounces of gold worth $8bn (£5bn) in the third quarter.

Since 2008 the bank has been purchasing mortgages.

The Treasury is considering a requirement that banks must purchase between 50 cents and $1 worth of the stock for each $100 in deposits.

In 2010, a bank purchased the mall for $7.8 million.

The bank purchased additional deposits approximating $220 million from another financial institution in 1994.

Since then, the banks have purchased financial assets and held them as the market improved.

A very prominent bank would purchase aircraft and lease them to the airlines.

The new investment company is supposed to buy a broader array of assets than the central bank can purchase with its foreign exchange reserves.

In 1855 the bank purchased the building to the east.