To offset this, the Bank of Japan would have to print vast amounts of yen in the hope of refloating the economy on a pool of liquidity while allowing the yen itself to sink.
At the turn of the 20th century, letterpress posters advertised boxing matches, circuses and carnivals, but most print shops junked their clunky letterpress printers for offset units in the 1950s or for computers in the 1980s.