Some people really lost their shirts. Back in the 1970s and '80s, the mood of the times called for everything to be "big, fast, and strong." That's why Japan's GNP rose so rapidly.
當時支配日本七○到八○年代的主流思考，通常就是要「很大、很快、很強」，所以才創造出當時日本的生產毛額。