Economic icon Heizo Takenaka needs listening to now - Telegraph

Economic icon Heizo Takenaka needs listening to now - Telegraph: "From 2001 until 2005, Takenaka was Japan's economics minister in Junichiro Koizumi's government. More than any other individual, this softly-spoken academic pulled the world's second-largest economy out of its decade-long slump of the 1990s."