Source: Nikkei Chinese Network

Author: Mo Bangfu

There is a group called the China -Japan Branch. It was established a few years ago. Most members have studied or worked in Japan.EssenceRecently, this group invited me as a guest to participate in an online reading club set on the evening of the 25th of this month. Talk about Japan or the first?This subject.

The cause of this reading meeting is that Sha Qingqing, deputy director of the History and Literature Center of the Shanghai Library, was translated and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House, or Japan, who was the first in Japan, the former Harvard University professor Fu Gaoyi?(The original book is: is Japan Still Number One?).Because Fu Gaoyi was the first author of Japan, published in 1979, and once popular super best -selling books in Japan, the published book obviously has the nature of Japan's first sequel, so the publishing news has attracted the attention of many people.As a result, Xu Jingbo, who was invited by the China and Japan Branch to be the guests with the media people, and talked with Sha Qingqing to discuss Japan or the first?this problem.

Speaking of Fu Gaoyi, I still have some contacts.In 2002, I participated in the interview and production of the NHK special series of special films on the 2nd episodes of Earth Market Wealth to create a Chinese strategy.At that time, I tracked small products in Haier and Yiwu, who were bravely moving towards overseas markets in the world, and visited experts, scholars and entrepreneurs in various countries, and visited Professor Fu Gaoyi and others in the United States.

At that time, although Japan was still in the throne of the world's second economic country, it had lost its sense of direction and was in the first 10 years of loss.However, China has taken advantage of the fierce economic development and chasing Japan like a fire.Therefore, the focus of Professor Fu Gaoyi's interview is not the first question of Japan, but to put attention points in China, which is quickly entering the world's big market.

In that interview, Fu Gaoyi's view was impressed with a deep point of saying.He said: Studying American American experts and scholars, now it is the focus of continuous attention to Chinese research.I am also one of them.

As a Chinese who has lived in Japan and inhabited in the media for a long time, I have a deep experience that Japan has changed greatly with the changes of the times in China and their own.I have lived in Japan for 35 years and divided it into two periods in the first and second period. When Japanese media came to interview me in the early stage, I often asked me my views on Japan. Often, I often hope that I will have a foreigner from the perspective of foreigners to Japanese society and the economy.In areas such as culture and other fields, they are criticized, even if my criticism is sharp, they are welcome.

At that time, my comparison with China always felt that Japan did better than China in many aspects of Japan.As a result, my speech is often criticized and praised, and the media that can be interviewed is very dissatisfied. I hope that my speech will be sharp and stronger.

In the later period, it turned the other way.With the economic downturn in the Japanese economy for many years, in the interview with Japanese media, I often want to hear the praise of Japan. I hope that I can say good words to Japan with Komi Japanese media.But at this time, because I traveled to 47 Metropolis counties across Japan, I had a deeper understanding of Japan as a whole, and I could see more problems.Therefore, my speech is often not as spicy as Sichuan cuisine.As a result, the Japanese media were dissatisfied, and I hope my sight can be softer and warm.

In fact, is the first and Japan written from Fu Gaoyi's first and Japan?In these two books, you can also feel the projection of similar vision changes in Japanese society in his book.

When Fu Gaoyi wrote the first in Japan, since the development of the high -speed economic development in the 1950s, the hard -to -study hard work of the Japanese has given high evaluation.Just as the name was the first step (upper to い て て 歩こう い い い い い い い い い い い い い い い) in 1962, the Japanese moved forward with their heads.Therefore, Fu Gaoyi's evaluation of the Japanese is right.

However, from another perspective, it is a bit thinner. After his first publication of Japan's first publication, the Japanese who were in the period of economic bubbles and his brain were fluttering, making them a kind of Japanese.It is the illusion of the world's first.I remember that in the early 1990s, many Japanese people thought that as long as the land in Tokyo was sold, the entire United States could be bought.At that time, Japan was quite like the sky, swallowing thousands of miles.

Unexpectedly, only 3 years after the first publication of Japan, Japan ushered in the bubble economic collapse, and then fell into a 10 -year difficulty of losing.In 1968, he replaced the then West Germany to maintain the status of the world's second economic country, which was 42 years old, and gave it to China for the first time.

Once, I interviewed an official of Jetro (Japan Trade Promotion Institution). He said to me: The status of the world's second economic country in Japan was unlikely to replace the second second second status; and China is now in their hands.The status of the world's second economic country is the second place that may be the best.His speech is worthy of aftertaste.

On one occasion, the political leader of the Japanese leader, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, the Director of Liberal Democratic Party, and the Minister of the Cabinet, and the Minister of the Cabinet, Shi Po Mao, who was a guest, was a guest.Before the show, he chatted with me in the lounge: We are a small country in Japan. Today, we need to find our own roads and defense routes.I was surprised after listening, and answered: I chose to learn Japanese that year, but I learned Japanese as a major language.However, Shi Po Mao did not change his point of view.

The decline of Japan's economic strength has cast a deep shadow.At present, Japanese people under the age of 40 to 50 can be said to have never experienced the spirit of energy and singing in the songs that are full of heads since they embarked on the society. Some middle -level cadres of the company said to me:Whether enterprises can do well now, do not work hard with you.Social trends have determined the development prospects of enterprises.Although this kind of words and deeds and mental states cannot represent every Japanese, its impact has been faintly controlled by the Japanese actions.

As a result, the Japanese do not like to travel overseas, and the number of students studying abroad has also declined sharply. As a result, people of Japanese insight starts to worry about whether the Japanese enter Harvard University every year.In the late century, the Japanese are everywhere.

If these are the appearance of things, then I am even more worried that the Japanese are not as good as the same year.So, today we asked: Is Japan first?It is a kind of normal concern, and it is also the focus of focusing on many Chinese people who have all kinds of communication with Japan.