大约在一九四七年,当时担任战后盟军太平洋战区总司令的美国将军麦克阿瑟曾经在日本说过这样一句话:“如果说,美国文化是一个成年人的话,日本文化只不过是一个十二岁的小孩子而已.”此言一出,日本朝野上下,一片默然.作为战败国,面对这位趾高气扬的占领军总司令,日本人只好“打落牙齿往肚里吞”.三十二年后的一九七九年,当一位美国学者写出了《日本名列第一——对于美国的教训》一 About 1947, the U.S. general MacArthur, then commander of the post-war Allied Pacific Region, once said in Japan: “If American culture is an adult, Japanese culture is only one As a defeated country, in the face of this arrogant occupying commander-in-chief, the Japanese had no choice but to ”knock down their teeth and swallow their belly“ In 1979, thirty-two years later, when an American scholar wrote ”Japan Ranked No. 1 - Lessons for the United States"