80年代以来,日本对外投资迅速扩大,1984年和1985年度资本外流量分别高达619亿美元和923亿美元,截至1986年3月,日本对外资产总额高达4,377亿美元,对外净债权额也达到1,298亿美元,其中一半以上是对美国拥有的债权,从而使日本超越美国成为世界上最大的金融债权国,并使日本从七十年代的“制造大国”上升为80年代的“金融大国”。 Since the 1980s, Japan’s foreign investment expanded rapidly. Outflows of capital in 1984 and 1985 reached as high as 61.9 billion U.S. dollars and 92.3 billion U.S. dollars respectively. As of March 1986, Japan’s total foreign assets reached as high as 437.7 billion U.S. dollars and foreign net debt reached 1,298 Over one hundred million U.S. dollars, of which more than half are claims on the United States, made Japan surpass the United States to become the world’s largest financial creditor country and Japan has risen from a “manufacturing power” in the 1970s to a “financial power” in the 1980s.