William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Economic modernization efforts and investor confidence hang in the balance


Soldiers setup barricades in front of the Central Bank of Myanmar on Feb. 15: the timing of the CBM shake-up could not be worse. © Sipa/AP
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."