为何日本人生育这么少的孩子.pptxVIP

LAST month a local official in Aichiprefecture set out a daring proposal. Tomonaga Osada suggested that theauthorities could distr ribute secretly punctured condoms to young marriedcouples, who would then get to work boosting the birth rate. His unorthodoxploy won few supporters, yet it reflects a gathering concern about Japan’sdemographic plight. Last year just over 1m babies were born, far fewer than thenumber needed to maintain the population, which is expected to drop from 127m toaround 87m by 2060. Why are youn g Japanese so loth to procreate? 上个月，日本爱知县当地官员提出了一项大胆的提议。Tomonaga Osada提议有关当局秘密向已婚的年轻夫妇发放被刺破的避孕套，以此让他们提高生育率。这个异端的计策并未获得支持，但这却反映了日益 让人感到担忧的日本人口困境，去年，日本只迎来了100万新生儿，这些数量远低于维持人口所需的数量。据预期，截至2060年，日本人口将从1.27亿落到8700万左右。那么，为何日本的年轻人不愿意生育子女呢？ The spiral of demographic de cline isspinning faster as the number of women of child-bearing age falls. In May areport predicted that 500 or more towns across the country will disappear byaround 2040 as young women migrate to bigger cities. The workforce is alreadyshrinking, imperiling fu ture growth. In recent years governments have embarkedon a plethora of schemes to encourage childbearing, including a “women’shand book” to educate young females on the high and lowpoints of their fertility, and state-sponsored matchmaking events. 随着育龄妇女人数的减少，人 口呈螺旋式下降的速度越来越快。5月份发布的一份报道预示，随着年轻女性移居大城市，截止2040年左右，日本国内将有500个甚至更多的城镇消失。日本的奥洞里已经在萎缩，这将危及将来的发展。近年来，政府已经实施了大量鼓励生育的方案，其中包括发放“妇女指南”对妇女的生 育能力高低峰进行指导，还有国家赞助的相亲活动。 The chief reason for the dearth ofbirths is the decline of marriage. Fewer people are opting to wed, andth ey are doing so later in life. At least a third of young women aim to becomefull-time housewives, yet they struggle to find men wh o can support atraditional family. In better economic times potential suitors had permanentjobs as part of the “lifetime employmen t” system. Now many hold down temporaryor part-time work. Other women shun marriage and children because Japan’sold-fashioned corp orate culture, together with a dire