Japanese investors continue to hold$180 billion of the U.S.’s mountain of debt paper, 30 times as much as the Germans.

美國人把我們的成就視作為第二次攻擊珍珠港事件。

Americans are seeing our successes here as Pearl HarborⅡ.

奇怪的是，目前，在許多方面美國人與其說是反對日本，不如說是反對美國。甚至存在這樣的危險：美國人對自己過分苛刻，對他們自己心懷偏見。

Curiously, Americans are now in many ways more anti-American than anti-Japanese. There is even a danger that Americans in a self-flagellating mood have become prejudiced against themselves.

這些強大的美國人，曾是二戰的勝利者、國際貨幣“美元”的擁有者，現在卻淪為債務國，把他們的不動產抵押出賣給日本人，因此感到丟失了一些面子。

Being a debtor nation, mortgaging their real estate to the Japanese, the mighty Americans, the victors of World WarⅡ, the dollar people, have lost a certain amount of face in their own estimation.