In the 1970s companies responded to rising input prices in a number of ways.

上世纪70年代，企业对投入价格上涨的应对方式多种多样。

Now, if we do see that, it would mean input prices do go down.

现在，如果我们真的等到了这一天，那就意味着投入价格确实会下降。

So input prices do go down, that means the cost of living in Japan will also go down.

因此，投入价格下降意味着在日本的生活成本也会下降。