[文化] 日本卒婚兴起: 不离婚只分居（双语）

　　日本今近年兴起卒婚，“卒婚”不同于离婚，是指仍然相爱的夫妇，他们决定在自己的晚年“分开居住”，以实现各自的梦想。在一个人口老龄化的国度里，这种想法已经深入人心。

　　This was not divorce. Sotsukon is for couples still in love, who decide to "live apart together" in their sunset years to achieve their separate dreams. In a nation with an aging population, the idea has taken root.

　　从婚姻中"毕业"

　　“卒婚”一词在2004年出现，创造于日本作家杉山由美子的《推荐卒婚》一书中，意为“从婚姻中毕业”。杉山由美子说：“在日本传统中，男人是一家之主，妻子则是依靠男人供养的家务劳工。我想知道，如果已婚夫妇能够在不离婚的情况下获得更多自由去做想做的事，会怎么样？”

　　The term "sotsukon" was coined in 2004 by Japanese author Yumiko Sugiyama in her book "Sotsukon no Susume" -- "Recommending the Graduation from Marriage.""In Japan, traditionally the man is the head of the household, and the wife lives under his financial support as a domestic worker," says Sugiyama."I wondered what if each member of the married couple could obtain more freedom to do what they want without getting divorced?"

　　日本作家杉山由美子

　　据日本政府统计，2014年日本只有100万新生儿。这个数字是有相关记录的亚洲国家中最低的。此外，同年日本妇女的平均寿命为世界之最，达86.83岁。

　　Just one million babies were born in Japan in 2014, according to government figures. That tally is the lowest figure on record in the Asian nation.Furthermore, Japanese women in the same year had the longest life expectancy in the world -- 86.83 years -- according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.

　　名人的支持也推动了“卒婚”现象更加深入地进入了主流社会。最著名的例子是日本喜剧演员清水明和妻子在2013年宣布将从婚姻中“毕业”，并出版了《卒婚：爱的新方式》一书。

　　In recent years, celebrity endorsement has pushed sotsukon deeper into the mainstream.Most famously, in 2013, Japanese comedian Akira Shimizu and his wife announced they would graduate from marriage, and published a book "Sotsukon -- A New Form of Love."

　　尽管没有具体的官方数字，但2014年由Interstation建筑事务所委托在东京进行的一项调查显示，人们有广泛的“卒婚”意愿。在接受调查的200位年龄在30至65岁的已婚妇女中，有56.8%的人表示最终希望从婚姻中“毕业”。退休被大多数妇女当作是开始“卒婚”的理想时间点。

　　While there are no official figures on how many couples in Japan have followed this path, a 2014 survey commissioned by Interstation architecture agency in Tokyo found a widespread desire to do so.Of the 200 married women polled, aged between 30 and 65 years old, 56.8% said they eventually wanted to graduate from marriage.Retirement was the period of life most women identified as the ideal point to undertake sotsukon.

　　日本女性经济日趋独立

　　最近，日本首相安倍晋三已经把女性作为自己经济政策的一个支柱。去年8月他在东京的世界妇女会议上宣称：“安倍经济学就是妇女经济学。”

　　More recently, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made women entering -- and remaining in -- the workforce a pillar of his economic policy. "Abenomics is womeneconmics," he declared at the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo last August.

　　2014年，日本年龄在15岁至64岁的女性中，有64%的人是职业女性，而这一比例在1969年时为46%。石井真子说：“现在有更多的日本妇女进入了职场，因此将会有退休金。妻子们知道她们可以自食其力。”

　　In 2014, 64% of women aged 15 to 64 in Japan were working, compared to 46% in 1969. "More Japanese women are now at work and therefore receiving pensions," says Ishii-Kuntz. "The wife knows she can make her own living."

　　石井真子说，作为一个整体，日本家庭正在发生变化。她说：“家庭成员变得个性化。每一个家庭成员都可以寻求他或她想要的东西，而不是把一辈子都用于照顾家人。”她补充说，几代同堂的家庭在日本正在变得日益罕见。此外，夫妻在同一个房间里分床而睡的情况也并不少见。也许“卒婚”是这种个性化的终极表现。

　　The Japanese family as a whole is changing, says Ishii-Kuntz。"Family members have become more individualized. Each family member is allowed to seek whatever he or she wants, rather than spending all their lives taking care of family members," she says.Multiple generations of adults living in one household is becoming increasingly rare in Japan, she adds. Furthermore, it is not unusual for husband and wife to sleep in separate beds in the same room.Perhaps sotsukon is the ultimate climax of that individualization.

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