日本老齡化嚴重：工薪階級辭職照顧老人

　　12月23日口譯文章：日本老齡化緊張：工薪階層告退照料白叟

　　依據日本當局的數據，每一年日本有跨越10萬名工薪族辭掉事情以埋頭照料病弱的年邁親人。而當白叟故去後，這些人中的絕大部門堅持著賦閑狀況。

　　鑒於日本嬰兒潮時代出身的近700萬人將在將來十年內到達75歲，大概會令閫處在贏利黃金時代的後代退出勞動力雄師，這個數字估計還將大幅增加。當由於低出身率和當局謝絕開放移民的緣故原由，使得位於事情年紀的生齒數目大幅削減時，日本這個國度大概就難以蒙受了。

　　日本輔弼安倍晉三在本年玄月亮相，要實時抑止這一被他稱為“迫不及待的危急”的晦氣情勢。在談話中，他表現要建立目的，要將經濟總量從如今的500萬億日元晉升到600萬億日元，同時還要防備生齒從如今的1億2700萬削減到低於1個億的這一情形的產生。末了，他還請求不管甚麽樣的家庭緣故原由。都要讓盡量多的人去事情。

　　作為第一步，日本政尊府個月宣告，籌劃在2020年以前，向有年邁者的住民家中分外供給12萬張床。當局還將放寬劃定，使在重要都會開設養老院加倍輕易，並將休假和補助舉行修訂。

　　這些辦法將會以每一年百分之零點二的速率晉升日本的勞動力。然則，一些專家表現，當局的這些發起其實不會辦理題目的龐雜性。

　　今朝日本有1640萬75歲及以上的老年生齒，到2025年，這一生齒數目估計將增至2180萬。

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　　More than 100,000 people a year in Japan leave their jobs to care for sick elderly relatives, according to the government, and most of them remain unemployed after their death.

　　The tally is set to balloon as the nearly 7 million-strong baby-boomer generation reaches the age of 75 in the coming decade, potentially dragging their children from the workforce in their prime earning years. That's something Japan can ill afford, as the working-age population shrinks due to the low birthrate and the government's rejection of immigration.

　　Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed in September to stem the flow, which he referred to as an "imminent crisis." In a speech, he set out targets for growing the economy to 600 trillion yen from the current 500 trillion yen, preventing the population from falling below 100 million from the current 127 million, and enabling as many people as possible to work, whatever their family responsibilities.

　　As a first step, the government last month announced plans to provide an extra 120,000 people with beds in homes for the elderly or other forms of support by the early 2020s. Regulations will be eased to make it easier to open nursing homes in major cities and entitlements to leave and allowances will be revised

　　The measures may boost Japan's workforce by a modest 0.2 per cent a year. Still, some researchers say the government's proposals don't address the complexity of the issue.

　　Japan has 16.4m people who are 75 or older. By 2025, the number is projected to swell to 21.8m.