Only the most obvious of the targets of August 1971, Japan, was badly hit by what the Japanese called the second “Nixon shokku” (the first being Nixon’s announcement the previous month that he would visit mainland China in 1972). That was because, unlike Germany, Japan was standing on its own.
只有日本，1971年8月战役的首要目标，遭受了沉重打击。这被日本人称作第二次“尼克松休克”，第一次是几个月之前，尼克松突然宣布将于1972年访问中国大陆。日本之所以受伤，因为它不像德国，它是自力更生的。