William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Demographics and debt collide just as yields hit quarter-century highs


A monitor in Tokyo displays the yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond at 1.625% on Aug. 27. © Kyodo
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."