日本東京是一座怪物一般的城市，容納了全日本三分之一的人口。東京人口最多的地區(qū)非常擁擠，澀谷著名的全向十字路口每分鐘可以看到上千的人流量，百貨商店和地鐵在周末和高峰期間塞滿了人群，有時(shí)甚至連站的地方都沒(méi)有。想想東京地鐵玻璃上擠到變形的臉，就知道人口密度有多恐怖了。

為了減少東京人口，日本政府決定給愿意離開(kāi)東京的人每人支付近300萬(wàn)日元，這種辦法真的能奏效嗎？

Japan’s government is considering a new way to get people to consider life outside Tokyo: Pay them to leave.

日本政府正考慮用一種新方法讓民眾離開(kāi)東京去其他地方生活——那就是，花錢請(qǐng)他們走。

According to a report by national broadcaster NHK on Nov. 22, the government is mulling giving as much as 3 million yen to people who decide to relocate from the 23 wards of Tokyo and find jobs elsewhere, starting in the next fiscal year.

根據(jù)日本國(guó)家廣播機(jī)構(gòu)日本放送協(xié)會(huì)11月22日的報(bào)道，日本政府正考慮從下一個(gè)財(cái)年起，給那些決定搬離東京23個(gè)區(qū)去其他地方找工作的人多達(dá)300萬(wàn)日元（18.4萬(wàn)元人民幣）的補(bǔ)助。

Tokyo and the greater metropolitan area surrounding the capital, with a total population of some 38 million, have long bucked the trend in Japan when it comes to demographics, even as Japan’s overall population shrinks. That’s often been at the cost of other cities.

東京和周邊的大都會(huì)區(qū)總?cè)丝诙噙_(dá)3800萬(wàn)，長(zhǎng)久以來(lái)在人口統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)中一直逆勢(shì)而上，即使日本總?cè)丝诳s水，東京人口卻一直在增加。但這通常是以其他城市為代價(jià)的。

Tokyo and the prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, and Saitama posted significant population growth in 2017. According to NHK, the number of people moving to Tokyo has exceeded the number moving out for 22 years and counting. Nearly one out of every three people in Japan lives in the Tokyo area.

2017年?yáng)|京和千葉縣、神奈川縣、琦玉縣都報(bào)告了大幅度的人口增長(zhǎng)。根據(jù)日本放送協(xié)會(huì)的數(shù)據(jù)，搬到東京的人數(shù)已經(jīng)連續(xù)22年超過(guò)搬離東京的人數(shù)，而且超出數(shù)量還在不斷增加。日本近三分之一的人都生活在東京地區(qū)。

The government added that as more people leave other major cities such as Sendai and Sapporo in the north of Japan for Tokyo, it will encourage people to relocate to those places, for example through tax benefits.

日本政府還表示，隨著更多人離開(kāi)仙臺(tái)市、札幌市等北部城市前往東京，政府將通過(guò)稅收優(yōu)惠等措施鼓勵(lì)人們搬到這些地方居住。

One prefecture that saw a population increase last year is the industrial hub of Aichi in central Japan, which experienced an influx of foreign migrant labor. Every prefecture in Japan except for Nagasaki posted a rise in the number of foreigners last year. Only the Okinawa prefecture experienced a population increase due to the number of births exceeding the number of deaths.

由于外國(guó)移民勞動(dòng)力的涌入，日本中部的工業(yè)中心愛(ài)知縣去年人口出現(xiàn)了增長(zhǎng)。除了長(zhǎng)崎市以外，日本每個(gè)縣的外國(guó)移民數(shù)量都有所增加。只有沖繩縣的人口增長(zhǎng)是因?yàn)樾律鷥簲?shù)量超過(guò)了死亡人數(shù)。

Japan’s government has for decades tried to lure people away from the capital and help rebuild depopulated and dilapidated areas, in a program broadly known as “revitalization of regions”. Some local governments have used tax cuts to encourage companies to leave the Tokyo area, while others will subsidize relocation costs.

幾十年來(lái)，日本政府一直試著吸引人們離開(kāi)東京，去幫助重建人口凋零的衰落地區(qū)，這個(gè)項(xiàng)目也被稱為“地區(qū)復(fù)興”。一些地方政府已經(jīng)通過(guò)減稅來(lái)鼓勵(lì)企業(yè)離開(kāi)東京地區(qū)，而其他地方政府則選擇發(fā)放安置補(bǔ)助費(fèi)。

One island in the Seto Inland Sea crowdfunded money to repurpose an old house into accommodation for new arrivals, and managed to attract a few newcomers, according to the Japan Times. The central government has even considered relocating some of Tokyo’s rapidly growing elderly population outside of the capital.

據(jù)《日本時(shí)報(bào)》報(bào)道，瀨戶內(nèi)海的一個(gè)島用眾籌的錢將舊房改造成新居民的安置房，也確實(shí)吸引來(lái)了一些人。日本中央政府甚至考慮將快速增加的老年人口從東京遷出一部分。

There is, in fact, a growing trend of young Tokyo-dwellers who want to leave behind urban life in the capital to move to smaller, cheaper, and quieter parts of Japan. And some areas are enjoying success in attracting people and businesses to leave Tokyo, such as Fukuoka, a mid-sized city in Kyushu which has seen a large influx of tech workers and start-ups, drawn to the city’s lower costs and proximity to talent and markets in other parts of Asia.

事實(shí)上，越來(lái)越多的東京年輕居民想要遠(yuǎn)離東京的都市生活，搬到更小、物價(jià)更低也更安靜的日本城鎮(zhèn)。日本一些地區(qū)已經(jīng)成功吸引了一部分人和企業(yè)離開(kāi)東京，比如九州的福岡市，這個(gè)中型城市涌入了大量技術(shù)人員和初創(chuàng)企業(yè)，吸引他們的是較低的物價(jià)，而且對(duì)亞洲其他地區(qū)的人才和市場(chǎng)可以近水樓臺(tái)先得月。

The small ski town of Niseko in Hokkaido is also enjoying a small increase in population, thanks to an explosion of interest overseas in Japan’s ski slopes. But with Japan’s vast government bureaucracy, its top schools, as well as companies all concentrated in Tokyo, escaping the capital looks set to remain a pipe dream for most.

由于外國(guó)游客對(duì)去日本滑雪興趣猛增，北海道的滑雪小鎮(zhèn)新雪谷町的人口也有小幅增長(zhǎng)。但是考慮到日本龐大的政府機(jī)構(gòu)、頂尖學(xué)校和公司全都集中在東京，離開(kāi)東京對(duì)大多數(shù)人來(lái)說(shuō)恐怕只能是個(gè)白日夢(mèng)。

英文來(lái)源：石英財(cái)經(jīng)網(wǎng)

編譯：丹妮