Unless Abe deregulates the economy, improves a corporate- governance system that produced the fraud at Olympus, severs the incestuous ties between government and business that enabled TEPCO’s incompet

Hear, hear !

aint that the truth, just did my taxes and again this year I paid WAY more taxes than over 70% of J-companies because thats how many pretty much operate year in year out & hardly if ever pay ANY income tax

This country is seriously messed up!

Only a Bloomberg columnist would put "deregulate the economy" first. Deregulation is no virtue by itself.

Also TEPCO is not incompetent. The decision to build any nuclear reactor in an earthquake-prone region like Japan is incompetent. Also "safer" energy sources are wind and solar power. Japan should just make more use of these homegrown natural resources.

This kind of person are defending tooth and nail globalism or globalization, whatever. Globalization has led to ruin many countries including the United States. Who has won lots of money is exactly people like him,Rats of wall street and Washington DC.

He wants to deregulate the economy and improve the corporate governance system to reduce fraud? It sounds to me as though this person is talking out both sides of his mouth.