Japan is not a poor country today. But its economic structure and level of prosperity make it look more like Italy than its counterparts in the eastern Pacific Rim – the US coastal states of Washington, Oregon, and California.
如今，日本不是穷国。但其经济结构和繁荣水平看起来更像是意大利，而不是其所在环太平洋地区东沿——美国的华盛顿州、俄勒冈州和加利福尼亚州。