The most obvious one is that Japan began its Lost Decade as the world’s largest creditor nation, and it still is.

最明显的一项是，在 “失去的十年”开始时，日本是世界上最大的债权国，它现在依然保持这一地位。

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Japan is a creditor nation that can rely on domestic savers. Greece is a deficit country that depends on “footloose” investors, says Thomas Mayer of Deutsche Bank.

依靠国内的储户，日本在国际上是债权国；而希腊则是一个依靠自由投资者的债务国，德意志银行的托马斯•梅厄如是说。

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Japan is the world's largest creditor nation.

日本为全世界最年夜的债权国。

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Moreover, Japan still is the world's biggest creditor nation.

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What many forget is that it was during the Reagan years that we went from being a creditor nation to a debtor nation as President Reagan was required to borrow heavily in order to make up for the income shortfall that resulted from so massive a tax cut.

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One prong involves a series of bilateral loans offered by national governments, central banks or by national treasuries, which would in turn be offered with preferred creditor status to recipient nation-states in the euro zone.

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