Yahoo | Shakespeare Too Expensive in Japan

“There were just too many debts,” Yamada said. “So the judgement of our managing company was that it would be better to let the place go.” The farewell run is a Royal Shakespeare Company production of “The Merchant of Venice,” in which a vengeful creditor tries to exact a pound of flesh from a hapless borrower.

I hate it when Yahoo News beats me to the ironic punchline.