1997年上半年的日本经济仍处在自1993年11月开始的景气回升过程之中，其显现的特点及面临的问题主要是：1．增长速度明显转慢。1997年头三个月，日本经济的增长速度还是比较快的，实际GDP的增长率曾达到1．6％。但从4月份起，形势开始急转直下，增长速度明显转慢，据日本经济研 In the first half of 1997, the Japanese economy was still in the process of rebounding from the beginning of November 1993, and its characteristics and problems faced were mainly as follows: 1. The growth rate is obviously slower. In the first three months of 1997, the growth rate of Japan’s economy was still relatively fast, with the real GDP growth rate once reaching 1.6%. However, from April onwards, the situation began to turn sharply lower, the growth rate slowed down significantly, according to Japan’s economic research