当时是，一些有影响的观察者警告说，日本人已经找到了超级经济模式，该模式（除了其他具有吸引力的方面外）以战略性贸易为特征，其他国家最好以日本为师。
At the time, some influential commentators warned that the Japanese had discovered a superior economic model, featuring strategic trade policy (among other attractions), and that the rest of us had better emulate them.