同当今世界头号经济强国美国相比,日本国土面积虽然仅有它的4%大,但国民生产总值1990年已占美国的54.7%,且总产值增长率、进出口额、经济收支盈余、对外纯资产和人均国民收入等方面均已超过美国,其后起经济大国地位已为举世所公认。据国外一些经济专家预测,到本世纪末的2000年,日本国民生产总值很可能超过美国,跃居世界的首位。第二次世界大战之后日本经 Compared with the United States, the number one economic power in the world today, although its land area is only 4%, Japan’s GNP accounted for 54.7% of the U.S. in 1990. And the growth rate of gross output value, import and export, surplus of economic revenue and expenditure , Foreign pure assets and per capita national income have surpassed the United States, and later became the economic power status has been universally acknowledged. According to some foreign economic experts, it is estimated that by the turn of the century, Japan’s GNP will surpass the U.S. in the first place in the world. Japan after the Second World War