William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Parallels to the 1997 Asian financial crisis are obvious


Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda: All eyes are on him. © AP
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."