تُسمَى فترة النمو الإقتصادي الفعلي بين 1960 و1980 بالمعجزة الاقتصادية اليابانية بعد الحرب: حيث بلغ المتوسط 7.5 بالمئة بين 1960 و1970 و3.2 في 1980 وأوائل 1990.
The period of overall real economic growth from the 1960s to the 1980s has been called the Japanese post-war economic miracle: it averaged 7.5 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, and 3.2 percent in the 1980s and early 1990s.