japan was no longer the quaint exotic country that the occupiers had seen, it was "japan, inc" as newspapers and
weekly news magazines became flooded with information about the japanese economy and work habits, americans began to
perceive the japanese as "economic animals" who cared for nothing but work, work, work.
the image was that of a mass of workers, all alike, running from their rabbit hutches in the morning, stuffing them-selves into
trains, disgorging into factories where they produced millions of stereos, cars and cameras, day after day, 24 hours a day.
japan was seen as a floating factory in which government and bureaucratic leaders collaborated with the owners of private
industry to attack and conquer american markets. the idea of collaboration between government and industry was particularly galling to the united states. the american economy had always been run with as much separation of government and private industry as possible, and anything else was seen as unfair competition.
長いですが、和訳をお願いします。