A few more words to talk.

Two days ago, the book friend mentioned in the chapter that Japanese companies are still very strong, I do not want to deny his views, I also believe that his impression of Japanese enterprises has its roots and fact-based.I just want to say my point of view from a holistic perspective.

I think that in the last two decades, although Japan has maintained a world-leading position in some technical fields, it has been very serious in recession as a whole.

I speak with data and phenomena.

Twenty years ago, in 1998.

Japan’s GDP is $4.03 trillion and China is $1.03 trillion.China’s economy is a quarter of Japan’s and the seventh in the world.Japan is second in the world economic ranking for a long time.

In the next two decades, China's GDP has soared, reaching 6.1 trillion US dollars in 2010, surpassing Japan's $5.7 trillion, ranking second in the new world after the United States.

By last year’s 2017 GDP ranking, the United States was $19.5 trillion, China was $13.1 trillion, and Japan was $4.3 trillion.

The ranking has not changed, and China has already tripled the number of Japan.The most surprising thing is that when others are increasing, Japan has decreased.In fact, in Japan, the peak of GDP in these two decades is 6.2 trillion US dollars in 2012, and it has been a little higher and low since then.The overall trend is stumbling,

Over the past two decades, the US has tripled, Germany has increased by a point or five, the UK has tripled, France has increased 1.6 times, and South Korea has increased fourfold.Even Russia, which has been moldy, has increased by 4.8 times, and India has managed to count cow dung by a 6.5-fold increase.

Needless to say, China has increased thirteenfold.

Of all the economic powers, only Japan is falling.

If inflation is taken into account, Japan’s economy is a big step backwards.

In addition to GDP, we are talking about social phenomena.

Twenty years ago, there were a large number of Japanese home appliances in the Chinese market.Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, Canon, Sanyo, Nikon, Liguang, and so on, and now these brands are gone.All were replaced by domestic goods.

Many Japanese companies have no longer been able to do the whole machine, they can only do the parts in the machine.Although its parts are of good quality, the profits are very different.

I’m sure a lot of people will say that Japan is still ahead in materials, in semiconductors, in pharmaceuticals, in cars, in many ways.But have you ever wondered whether these Japanese industries will disappear in the Chinese market like Japanese home appliances in another decade?

A Japanese company, a Japanese company is very good, but it can not hide the decline of Japan as a whole.

In the past 20 years, Japan has developed what new industries?He was eating old.

I often joked in the last book that Russia has eaten more than 20 years of Soviet books and finally ate itself into a big Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons for a living selling resources.

Do not deny that Japan still has a strong strength in many aspects, after all, the world's third, the fourth-ranking Germany and it still have a small gap.But in the face of China's overall competition, the United States feels nervous to desperately suppress, Japan it can eat how long old?

Ten years later, we’ll look back!