日本证券市场是仅屈居于美国证券市场之后的世界第二大证券市场，1994年日本国内上市股票市价总额达37000亿美元。80年代末，由于日本上市公司股票价格上升，日本的股票市价总额曾一度明显超过美国，然而1991年至1992年间日本证券交易所股价的狂跌重又让美国赶到了前面。木过， The Japanese securities market is the second largest securities market in the world only after the U.S. securities market. In 1994, the total market capitalization of Japanese domestic listed stocks reached 3.7 trillion U.S. dollars. In the late 1980s, Japan’s stock market price once surpassed that of the United States because of the increase in the stock prices of Japanese listed companies. However, the upsurge in the stock prices of Japan Stock Exchange in 1991-1992 again brought the United States to the front. Wood,