【08.12.22 BBC】日本：经济衰退下的生活状况

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Living with recession in Japan

经济衰退下的日本生活

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7795390.stm

As recession deepens in Japan, people across the country explain how they are coping with the economic downturn.

由于日本经济的严重衰退，日本民众抱怨危机之下如何生活。

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TOE NAKATA, SHOP ASSISTANT, YOKOHAMA

Toe NAKATA，店员，横滨

                                

Iwork in a shop and I see evidence of the recession every day. EverydayI see sales go down and fewer and fewer people walk in.The shop sellssoaps and body care goods. These are non-essentials,made for fun andhobbies or for children. People who are not spending money do not spendon this.
People are now busy spending their income on food and rentandessential things like that. There is not much extra money forspending on other things.
That goes for me as well. I stopped spending money on CDs and books. There are lot more things i want to buy than I actually do.
Peopleare very worried about the economy. There is news on that topic everyday and every night. People are always talking about how much worse itis getting.
It seems as if there is no end to the bad situation. People are really nervous and it's like talk has replaced spending.

我在一个商店里打工，每天都在见证着经济的衰退。我们的销售额每况益下，光顾的客人也日益减少。我们商店是卖香皂和护肤品的，并不是生活必需品，只是为生活增添乐趣或者为了小孩才买。那些减少开支的人们不再把钱花在这些东西上面，人们都把钱用在食品和生活必需品上面，除此之外并没有多少额外的钱花在别的东西上面。

就拿我来说，我不再花钱买CD和书，很多东西我想买，但是我不会真的去买下来。

人们非常担心经济问题，经济问题也成为每天的新闻头条。人们都在谈论它到底会有多糟糕。

现在的经济问题看起来像个无底洞，民众开始有些紧张并前减开去。

YUKIKO TOMONOBU, TRANSLATOR AND TOUR GUIDE, TOKYO

YUKIKO TOMONOBU,翻译兼导游，东京

Luckily my husband has been working and my son who is about to graduate from university has got a job in a Japanese company.

Butthere are still risks. We hear that final year students inuniversitywho have been offered jobs have since been told that the company cannottake them because of the downturn. It does make me worry.Those studentshave to stay in university for one more year spending money on tuition.Some universities have said they will give discounts for the comingyear. People are worried they might not be able to find a job even intwo years time. People expect this to last along time.
I amfreelance interpreter, and government licensed tour guideand up untilthe middle of this year, it was business as usual. But we have noticedthat we have not had the same number of job offers as last year.
Ithink the government should do more. We have a new primeminister but hehasn't set out concrete measures on how he plans to improve the currentsituation.

我算是幸运的，因为我的丈夫还有工作，我的儿子也已经大学毕业并且在一间日本公司找到了工作。

但是风险依然存在，我们听到那些有分配工作大四学生被告知，那些公司因为经济衰退现在不能提供工作。这引起新的忧虑，那些学生不得不在学校里再待上一年，并且还要交一年的学费，一些大学承诺他们会把明年学费降低。但是学生们依然担心，因为可能明后两年找工作都很困难。人们希望衰退的状况不会持续太久。

我自己本人是一个自由职业者，而且在今年年中拿到政府认证的导游执照,前期的生意还不错，但是明年肯定不可能有像今年一样多的工作。

我认为政府应该承担更多，我们的新首相刚上任，但是他对目前的衰退并没有制定具体的应对计划。

KATSUMI ICHIMURA, TEACHER/BUSINESS CONSULTANT, NAGOAKA
   
KATSUMI ICHIMURA，教师/商业顾问，长岗

                                

Irun an English-speaking conversation school and business is going asusual even though it is a recession. People here think it is a priorityto master English.But this is a severe recession. I am also aconsultant for small to medium-sized enterprises in this town and Ihave several clients who have suffered badly. One of them is in thesemiconductor industry and their productivity has halved. We can't getany orders for them.
People try not to spend any money because they don't see a bright future. They try to be prudent.
InNagaoka the main business is industry and it is badly affected. Some ofmy students who are employed in industry say they haven't seenrecession like this before.

我在一家英语学校当老师，同样也受到经济衰退的影响。这里的人们认为教英语是一个优势，但是也受到了很严重的影响。我同时还是镇上一家小公司商业顾问，我有一些客户现在处境非常不好，有一家半导体企业为了渡过危机已经减少一半，我们根本拉不到单。

民众不敢花钱，因为未来的状况非常不明朗，他们只能是慎之又慎。

长岗的主要商业就是制作业，但是现在都深受经济衰退的影响。我的一些在职的学生说，他们从未见到过如此严重的衰退。


HIROAKI SUDA, STUDENT, TOKYO

HIROAKI SUDA, 学生,东京
   

                                

Iam going on holiday to Korea because the strength of the yen relativeto the Korean currency makes it worth while financially.There are joblosses in Japan. Temporary contract workers are being cut. This is oneof the biggest issues affecting us today.
Fortunately, I depend onmy father at the moment because I am a postgraduate student so I am notdirectly affected. I live in a city with big shopping malls and I dosee people there. But they are only looking at the products and notbuying.
There are many Japanese Brazilian workers here andunfortunately companies are cutting these workers first of all. Theyare now wandering the city, jobless and I can't help but feel a littlebit worried about that.


我将去韩国渡假，因为日元兑韩元比较有优势。现在日本的失业状况增加，临时工都被裁掉了，这是影响我们生活的最大问题。
幸好，我已经从大学毕业，现在在我的父亲手下做事，我住在一个大型城市购物中心的旁边，我看到很多人只是在那里只看不买。
这里有很多巴西人在这里工作，很不幸的是他们成为公司裁员的首选目标，失去工作的他们只能在城市里流浪，我帮不上什么忙，但是对此有些担心。