William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Japan Inc. icons Toyota, SoftBank and Rakuten turn against the 2020 Tokyo Games


A banner of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, pictured on May 13: Japan is stuck in stop-go-stop mode. © AP
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."