自80年代中期以来,日本政府在其过剩资本大量增加、美、日、欧贸易摩擦愈益频繁和激化、日元大幅升值的情况下,改变对外经济发展战略,由沿袭已久的“贸易立国”转向“海外投资立国”,大力扩展其对外直接投资,实现日本经济的国际化,尤其是资本的国际化,以便在更高层次上建立全球性生产经营体系。在这一新的总体战略指导下、为了更好地同美、欧实力强大的跨国公司争夺国际市场,日本跨国公司采取了颇具 Since the mid-1980s, the Japanese government has changed the strategy of foreign economic development by increasing its excess capital, increasing the frequent and intensifying trade frictions between the United States, Japan, and Europe and sharply increasing the value of the Japanese yen. It turned to “overseas investment to build a country” and vigorously expanded its foreign direct investment to achieve the internationalization of the Japanese economy, especially the internationalization of capital, in order to establish a global production and management system at a higher level. Under the direction of this new overall strategy, Japanese multinational companies have adopted a strategy to better compete with the powerful multinational companies in the United States and Europe for the international market.