直到六十年代中期,发达的资本主义国家看日本就象城里阔佬看一个头脑灵活但却希望渺茫的乡下佬。然而到后来,西方却开始恐慌起来:仿佛掌握牢固的销售市场,突然间被日本产品占领了。一些学者和商人纷纷涌入这个正在崛起的国家,去了解造成这种经济现象的原因,并寻找相应的对策,一场向生产合理化的“新麦加”的朝圣开始了。 It was not until the mid-1960s that the developed capitalist countries looked at Japan like a city boy who looked forward to a flexible but hopeless countryman. However, later, the West began to panic: as if to grasp a solid sales market, suddenly occupied by Japanese products. Some scholars and businessmen have flocked to this rising nation to understand the reasons for this economic phenomenon and find corresponding countermeasures. A pilgrimage to the rationalized “New Mecca” began.