We Japanese have a deeply ingrained stoicism, reflecting the Confucian notion that people do not lament poverty when others lament it equally. This willingness to accept a situation, however bad, as long as it affects everyone equally is what enabled Japan to endure two decades of deflation, without a public outcry over the authorities' repeated failure to redress it.
我们日本人有着根深蒂固的清心寡欲传统，这体现出不患寡而患不均的儒家思想。只要人人影响平等，甘愿接受现状的心态让日本安然度过了二十年的通缩，民众并没有因为当局始终无法解决通缩问题而怨声载道。