What bothers me is the sort of implicit assumption in many of these stories that deflation is some sort of mysterious malady that simply fell on the poor benighted country of Japan.

• 让我困扰的是，许多这类报道中都隐含着一种假设，把通缩描绘成一种神秘的弊病，它仅仅发生在像日本这样陷入困境的国家。