William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Japan's prime minister must start delivering, and now

Fumio Kishida delivers a speech at the Guildhall in London on May 5: Kishida's real problem is the clock. © Reuters
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."