二战结束时 ,日本经济与美国经济相距甚远 ,那时几乎无人能够预见日本经济可在不长的未来赶上美国。但是从５０年代初开始 ,日本经济维持了三四十年的快速增长。在与美国的一些传统优势产业如汽车业的竞争中 ,美国反而处于劣势。根据中国经济信息网中经数据栏目所整理的世界银 At the end of World War II, the Japanese economy was far from the U.S. economy. At that time, almost no one could foresee that the Japanese economy would catch up with the United States in the not-so-distant future. However, from the early 1950s, Japan’s economy maintained its rapid growth in three or four decades. The United States, on the other hand, is at a disadvantage in its competition with some of the traditional U.S. industries such as the automobile industry. According to China Economic Information Network in the data column by the World Bank