Στην Ιαπωνία, όπου ο αντιπληθωρισμός κυριαρχεί στην οικονομία και τα επιτόκια έχουν εκμηδενιστεί πρακτικά εδώ και χρόνια, μερικοί έχουν παρόμοιες απόψεις.
In Japan, where deflation has gripped the economy and interest rates have decreased to practically zero for years now, some reason along similar lines.They envisage defeating what Keynes, probably the most influential economist of the 20th century, called the liquidity trap; they contemplate the Bank of Japan resorting to inflation-creation via money printing -- by buying government bonds -- as a means of reviving consumption and thereby steering the economy out of its long stagnation.