The Japanese system, complains Mitsuo Ohmi, a drug analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (Asia) Ltd.

FORBES: Bad medicine

In came Mitsuo Ohtsuki, a no-nonsense physicist trained at the University of Chicago.

FORBES: Greasing the wheels

"There is only a limited area in which he can take economic policies to new directions, " says Fukushima Mitsuo of Japan's Institute of Developing Economies.

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