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Japan has been in the midst of a fertility crisis for some time now.
日本在這段時間內(nèi)一直處于生育危機(jī)之中。
Over just the last few years the country has had a population decline of 1 million people.
在過去的幾年里，這個國家的人口減少了100萬人。
With young workers spending 12-16 hour days at the office there just isn't time for relationships or children.
年輕人每天要工作12到16個小時，因而沒有時間談戀愛，更沒時間生孩子。
And for the elderly who are living longer, it can mean crushing loneliness.
而老年人壽命越來越長，這對他們可能意味著極度的孤獨(dú)。
Demographic experts have said that Japan needs a fertility rate of 2.2 children to keep a population steady,
人口專家表示，日本需要2.2的生育率來保持人口數(shù)穩(wěn)定，
their rate currently is at just 1.41. Some economists have described the situation in Japan as a "demographic time bomb."
而目前的生育率僅為1.41。一些經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家將日本的情況描述為“人口定時炸彈”。
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