With millions of words already uttered and/or written on the topic of an inevitable convergence between the fates of the US and of Japan, there is a certain fatigue in the Broca area when merely the topic of deflation is uttered, which causes frontal lobe Na/K pumps to immediately downshift to half capacity. Which is why we have decided to present this far more easily digestible presentation of 39 pretty and contrast-colored slides prepared by Bank of America, titled 'Is the US Becoming Japan' for all those who are of the visual learner persuasion and happen to still wonder how long before a Shinto shrine is erected in the middle of Las Vegas.