日本是当今世界头号汽车生产和出口大国,1991年以年产1324.5万辆再居世界第一,占全球生产的25%以上。同年国内销售5745185台,成为仅次于美国的世界第二大消费汽车市场。但90年代后,日本汽车工业也开始徘徊不前,进入又一个转换结构时代。一、困境中走向成熟进入90年代后,受世界不景气和国内“气泡”经济破灭的影响,日本的汽车工业陷入前所未有的困境之中,主要表现在: Japan is the world’s number one automobile production and exporting country. In 1991, it produced 13.245 million cars per year and ranked first in the world, accounting for more than 25% of global production. In the same year, it sold 5,745,185 domestic units and became the second largest consumer car market in the world after the United States. However, after the 1990s, the Japanese auto industry began to stagnate and entered another era of structural transformation. First, after the dilemma matured into the 1990s, due to the world recession and the collapse of the domestic “bubble” economy, Japan’s auto industry fell into an unprecedented predicament, mainly in: