William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
China still must deal with toxic assets and excess of developers


An unfinished building in Suihua, China: Beijing's new plan does more to treat the property market's symptoms than the underlying causes of its troubles. © VCG/Getty Images
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."