Former Executive Director for Japan at the IMF and currently Research Director at the Canon Institute, Daisuke Kotegawa, discusses the ongoing financial crisis in the West with EIR’s Mike Billington. Kotegawa was responsible for winding down many of the Japanese banks during the ’97 Asian crisis and discusses the differences between how Japan handled the fraudulent banking practices which lead to their crisis vs. how the West has bailed out the criminals who were responsible for the ’07-08 crash.

Former Executive Director for Japan at the IMF and currently Research Director at the Canon Institute, Daisuke Kotegawa, discusses the ongoing financial crisis in the West with EIR’s Mike Billington. Kotegawa was responsible for winding down many of the Japanese banks during the ’97 Asian crisis and discusses the differences between how Japan handled the fraudulent banking practices which lead to their crisis vs. how the West has bailed out the criminals who were responsible for the ’07-08 crash.