日本已成为世界数一数二的现代强国,但也不是没有穷人。20世纪90年代初,日本的一位富商发现了一个几乎与世隔绝的小山村,几十户人家仅靠少量贫脊的山地过日子,生活极为贫苦。村里的长者向商人求教,说村人虽然也想脱贫致富,但一直苦于无计可施。商人感到,正因为这种落后在日本罕见,它可能本身就是一种宝贵的商 Japan has become one of the best modern powers in the world, but not without poverty. In the early 1990s, a wealthy businessman in Japan discovered an almost isolated hill village where dozens of families lived in very poor conditions and lived in extremely poor conditions. The elders of the village sought advice from businessmen, saying that although the villagers also want to get out of poverty and get rich, they have been struggling to do nothing. The businessman feels precisely because of this backwardness that Japan is rare, it may itself be a valuable trader