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The tight budgets of retirees such as Makoto Miyakawa, a 71-year-old who lives near Yokohama,
生活在橫濱附近的71歲的Makoto Miyakawa等退休者經(jīng)濟(jì)拮據(jù)，
are a big part of the reason Japan's annual economic growth has averaged an anemic 0.9 percent since 2000, about a third of what it was in the previous two decades.
是日本自2000年以來年均經(jīng)濟(jì)增長乏力僅為0.9%的主要原因，與過去的20年相比，僅為經(jīng)濟(jì)增長的三分之一。
Miyakawa says his wife controls the family purse strings, and after he retired she decided to cut his monthly allowance in half, to the equivalent of $10 a day.
Miyakawa說，他的妻子掌握著家里的經(jīng)濟(jì)大權(quán)。退休后，她決定將他的每月津貼減半，相當(dāng)于每天10美元。
(She's quick to remind him, he says, that the neighbors' husbands get less.)
（他說，妻子很快提醒他，鄰居們的丈夫每月津貼越來越少。）
The couple are careful about spending because they don't want to outlive their money or end up facing medical bills they can't afford.
這對(duì)夫婦花錢很小心，因?yàn)樗麄儾幌肼涞經(jīng)]錢花的地步，也不想最終負(fù)擔(dān)不起醫(yī)療費(fèi)用。
"Everybody wants to go out fast, but you have no control over that," he says.
他說：“誰都想快點(diǎn)出院，但你沒辦法控制這個(gè)。”
If there are any winners in all of this, it's Japan's discount retailers, which are thriving.
如果說這一切能有贏家的話，那就是日本的折扣零售商，他們正在蓬勃發(fā)展。
Nitori Holdings Co., a budget furniture store with the ubiquitous catchphrase "More than you paid for" (it's cooler in Japanese),
Nitori集團(tuán)是一家廉價(jià)家具店，其流行口號(hào)是“物超所值”（在日語中的表達(dá)更炫酷）。
has grown into one of the country's top 10 retailers, adding more than three stores a month for years.
現(xiàn)在，該集團(tuán)已經(jīng)成長為日本十大零售商之一，多年來每月新增三家以上的商店。
And Japan's 100-yen shops, the equivalent of dollar stores, which were mostly unheard of until the late 1990s,
日本的100日元店，相當(dāng)于一元店，直到20世紀(jì)90年代末才出現(xiàn)。
now have almost 7,000 outlets pulling in almost $7 billion in annual sales.
現(xiàn)在，這種店鋪有近7000家，年銷售額接近70億美元。
"There's no reason," says one fan, 75-year-old Naoko Ishikawa, "to feel embarrassed about shopping at a 100-yen store anymore."
75歲的Naoko Ishikawa是100日元店的粉絲，她說：“沒有理由再為在一家100日元店購物感到尷尬了。
