"After Taiwan replaced Japan as the main center of cloth production in the 1990s, firms in Japan moved farther upstream to materials development," says Cheng Kai-fang, deputy director of the Department of Industrial Information and Services (DIIS) at the Taiwan Textile Research Institute.
「1990 年代台灣取代日本成為布料的生產重鎮後，日本本島就往更上游的原料端發展。」