Instead, the focus on Japan shifted to how it needed to reform its corporate structure and financial system to be able to regain some of its former glory.
With the system purged of its worst banks and loans, financial markets would regain confidence in the banks that were left and would start charging them less for their capital.
"What I learned was by allowing people to go online - put passwords into a secure system so that they can see what was being recorded about them - it's led them to regain that trust between ourselves and the patients, " he said.