The soaraway yen – or the incredible shrinking dollar, depending on how you choose to look at it – has put the kibosh on the Comdex in Japan show, which had been scheduled for March 1 to 3, 1988 at the Harumi Exhibition Center in Tokyo: organiser The Interface Group Inc reckons that the pitifully-reduced buying power of foreign currencies in Japan would hurt too much and has postponed the event sine die.