Japan already has its very own Greenspan

ARTICLE - "Japan needs an Alan Greenspan," some Japanese intellectuals recently demanded, and then went on to debate who the nation's own Greenspan might be. Given the country's dire economic straits, it is understandable that Japanese eyes are being cast across the Pacific to the famed U.S. central banker.

Originally published in The Daily Yomiuri by Richard A. Werner on 17 October.

After all, even the British government this summer recognized his unusual deeds by announcing that Queen Elizabeth

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