TOKYO – Six months after Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century generated so much buzz in the United States and Europe, it has become a bestseller in Japan. But vast differences between Japan and its developed counterparts in the West, mean that, like so many other Western exports, Piketty's argument has taken on unique characteristics.
东京—托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty）的书《二十一世纪资本论》（Capital in the Twenty-First Century）出版半年来，在美国和欧洲引起了极大的反响，如今，它在日本也成了畅销书。但日本和西方发达国家之间的巨大差异意味着，与许多其他欧洲舶来品（export）一样，皮凯蒂的观点颇有些独特的特征。