William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
The real winner from the Tokyo Stock Exchange outage last week? Bitcoin!
Japan squanders past eight years of supposed reform under Shinzo Abe


An empty trading space after the TSE suspended all trading due to system problems on Oct. 1: investors were questioning the reliability of a market that seems unready for prime-time. © Kyodo
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
The real winner from the Tokyo Stock Exchange outage last week? Bitcoin!