日本已经在许多方面接替了美国在菲律宾的作用,并通过经济渗透实现了它在第二次世界大战期间使用军事征服而没有达到的目的。由于日本已经成为菲律宾产品的最大市场同时又是菲律宾进口需求的首要供应者,因而它已接替美国而成为菲律宾的第一位贸易伙伴.日本是菲律宾铜精矿的最大购买者, Japan has taken over in many ways the role of the United States in the Philippines and has achieved through its economic penetration the purpose it did not achieve through the use of military conquests during the Second World War. Japan has become the Philippines’ first trading partner as it has become the largest market for Filipino products and the leading supplier of import demand to the Philippines, taking over from the United States.Japan is the largest purchaser of Philippine copper concentrate,