摘要
80年代以来,国际金融资本的力量对比发生了重大变化。其主要标志是,美国从世界最大的资本输出国和债权国沦为世界最大的资本输入国和债务国,而日本则取代美国成为世界最大的资本输出国和债权国。现在,日本的金融资本如同其商品一样洪水般冲击国际金融市场,不仅对世界经济产生影响,而且为其谋求政治大国地位增添了新的筹码,引起广泛的瞩目。一、金融大国的崛起进入80年代,日本在世界经济中的地位全面增强。继1980年日本成为十五种重要工业产品西方最大生产国之后。
Since the 1980's, Japan has been rapidly rising in the field of international finance. Today it has already superseded the US as the largest capital exporter and creditor. Relying on its powerful finances, Japan's monopoly financ(?)al institution pushes ahead with its global expansion strategy by establishing financial strongpoints over the world, exporting capital on a large scale and partieipating in extensive international financial bus(?)nesses, and has achieved the dominant position in international financial system. With the US as its focal point, Japan's financial capital invests mainly in its securities and actively penetrates into real estates and industrial and commercial ventures. Japan's large-scale capital export to the US has changed dramatically the direction of world capital flow and become an indispensable factor in the US economic development.
The power of Japan's financial capital s on the rise and the power balance of international financ(?)al capital will keep on developing in a direction favourable to Japan. Japan will still act as a major supplier of funds for world development and its Yen, together with the US dollar and D-Mark. will become the three key currencies in the world. By 21th century, Tokyo will probably have turned into the largest financial centre in the world. As a 'financial power'', Japan's rapid rise has made up the deficiency of international fluidity and played an active role in easing the problems of money shortages and debt crises of the developing countries and in maintaining world economic development. But in the meanwhile, it has also destroyed the international financial order, worsened the turbulent market situations, caused a series of fierce frictions and added potential unstable factors to world economy.
