Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades

About the Author

William Pesek is the Asia-Pacific columnist for Bloomberg View, based in Tokyo, providing opinions and commentary on economics, business, markets, and politics throughout the region.

Pesek’s columns routinely appear in the International Herald Tribune, Sydney Morning Herald, New York Post, the Straits Times, the Japan Times, and many other publications around the globe. He writes a monthly column for Bloomberg Markets magazine and is a regular on Bloomberg Television. He is a winner of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ 2010 award for commentary.

He worked previously as a columnist for Barron’s, the Dow Jones weekly magazine, in Washington, DC, writing about global economics, politics, markets, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury Department, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Before that, Pesek worked at Dow Jones Newswires in New York City, covering economics, companies, and markets. In the mid-1990s, he wrote the daily credit markets column for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, he was a reporter at the American Banker and Bond Buyers newspapers in New York City.

Pesek has a bachelor’s degree in business journalism from Bernard M. Baruch College.

His work can be found at www.bloomberg.com/view/bios/william-pesek/.

He can be followed on Twitter at @williampesek.