我们还能够清晰地记起20世纪90年代初期如何出现了一本接一本的著作，敦促美国和欧洲公司模仿日本的做法，预言惟其如此才能逃脱失败的命运。
We would do well to recall how, at the beginning of the 1990’s, book after book was still being written urging US and European corporations to imitate Japan or face certain doom.