William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
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A 1Malaysia Development Berhad billboard in Kuala Lumpur, pictured in February 2016: it takes a warped, opaque and stuck-in-time political system to produce a scandal like 1MDB. © Reuters
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