Japan’s powerful bureaucrats, nostalgic for the 1960’s model of development, whereby government and its business cronies nurtured the Japanese miracle, strongly opposed this bold, free-market solution. But their model is obsolete, because Japan now competes directly with many other Asian and non-Asian countries, where work habits are of the type that used to prevail among the Japanese.
日本大权在握的官僚却对由政府及其商业密友创造日本奇迹的20世纪60年代发展模式仍然念念不忘，这种胆大妄为的自由市场解决之道遭致他们强烈的反对。但他们所推崇的模式已经过时，因为日本现在直接面临其他许多亚洲和亚洲以外国家的竞争，这些国家的工作习惯和日本曾经的工作习惯非常相似。