<a gi-track='captionPersonalityLinkClicked' href=/galleries/search?phrase=Heizo+Takenaka&family=editorial&specificpeople=602464 ng-click='$event.stopPropagation()'>Heizo Takenaka</a>, Japan's former economy minister and professor at Keio University, listens during an interview in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Japan has the best opportunity to beat deflation in more than a decade, said Takenaka, the architect of policy changes credited with solving the nation's bad loan problems after a burst real-estate bubble. Photographer: Junko Kimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images