‘Lehman Shock’ Is Kid Stuff Next to Fukushima: William Pesek

Of all the tremors being felt in Tokyo, Masaaki Shirakawa is experiencing some of the biggest.

The Bank of Japan head is under greater pressure than any of his predecessors over the last 20 years to get radical. With Japan facing the triple whammy of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, Shirakawa is getting shouted at from every direction to bring the BOJ back to the 1930s.