1998, Japan's economic scale reached 7 1.9% of the United States. Of the Fortune 500 companies, 144 are from Japan and 146 are from the United States. At that time, the strongest enterprises in the world were Toshiba, Sony and Toyota in Japan, and the Nobel Prize for invention patents ranked second in the world, with per capita GDP, development level and welfare ranking first in the world. At that time, the land price in Tokyo could buy the whole United States. The CNC machine tools for fighter planes and submarines in the Soviet Union and the United States are all made in Japan, and more than 80% of the products in the world are made in Japan. The world's top 10 enterprises are all Japanese enterprises, 22 of the world's top 30 enterprises are Japanese enterprises, and the world's richest man is also Japanese (Yoshiaki Tsutsumi) in the 1980s and 1990s. Japanese culture is even more popular all over the world. Japanese animation such as slam dunk master, detective Conan and Doraemon are popular in Asia, and dragon balls are popular in Europe and America, especially in Japan. Comprehensive strength 1976 surpassed new york, and it was not until 20 16 that new york surpassed Tokyo. Japan's manufacturing industry ranks first in the world, from PSP, Sony and LCD TV to Toyota and Shinkansen. Japan's manufacturing industry surpassed Germany and the United States in only three years after the war, and Japanese inventions poured out like fountains during that time. The two-dimensional code, three-hole plug, rice cooker, LCD TV, floppy disk and karaoke we used were all invented by the Japanese. However, because Japan has been hostile to us for a long time, China dare not let the name China know the powerful side of Japan, so everyone thinks that Japan is the younger brother of the United States and cannot compete with the United States. In fact, during 1970-1990, Japan was beautiful.