William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Flip-flop on capital gains tax suggests little desire to upset the status quo

Fumio Kishida's pivot seems to be back to the 1990s. © Reuters
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."