为了鼓励人们结婚生育，日本政府可谓是使尽了招数。最近日本政府又宣布，将为新婚夫妇提供多达60万日元的结婚补助金，助其轻松开启新生活。

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Newly couples can receive up to 600,000 yen to their rent and other costs to start a new life from next April if they live in a municipality adopting Japan's newlywed program, sources said Sunday.

日本政府消息人士9月20日透露，居住在实施新婚补助计划的市町村的新婚夫妇，从2021年4月起可以获得**60万日元(约合人民币3.9万元)的补贴来开启新生活，用以支付房租和其他费用。

As the nation's ultralow birth rate is attributed mainly to the tendency people marry late or stay unmarried, the government will try to boost marriages by enhancing the to a larger sum and cover more couples, said the sources at the Cabinet Office.

日本内阁府的消息称，由于日本的超低出生率主要被归结于人们晚婚或不婚，政府将尝试通过该项目来为更多新婚夫妇提供更大数额的补助金，从而提高结婚率。

To be eligible, both husband and wife will have to be under age 40 as of the registered date of and have a combined of less than 5.4 yen, up from age 35 and 4.8 million yen under the conditions for of up to 300,000 yen.

申请人需满足以下条件：夫妻双方在登记结婚之日须未满40岁，且家庭收入低于540万日元(约合人民币35万元)。新规较目前的新婚补助条件有所放宽，当前这两项条件分别为登记结婚当日须未满35岁，家庭收入低于480万日元，补助金额则为**30万日元。

only 281 municipalities, or 15 of all cities, towns and villages in Japan, had adopted the program as of July as they must half the expenses, but in a bid to the number, the government will bear two-thirds from fiscal 2021, the sources said.

消息人士称，截至7月，日本国内实施该项目的有281个市町村，仅占所有市町村的15%左右，因为当地政府须承担一半的费用。消息人士称，为了提升该政策的覆盖率，中央政府将从2021财年起承担三分之二的费用。

The program is part of government efforts to address the low birth rate as married couples tend to have two children, even the number of children a woman will bear in her lifetime was 1.36 last year with a record-low 865,000 babies born.

此项计划是日本政府为解决低出生率问题而推出的举措之一，因为已婚夫妇通常都会生育两个小孩，而去年出生的新生儿数量只有86.5万，每名妇女一生平均生育1.36个小孩，创下历史新低。

An economic incentive is deemed to people to marry since 29.1 percent of single men aged 25 to 34 and 17.8 percent of single women cited lack of marriage funds as a reason they stayed unmarried in a 2015 by the National Institute of and Social Research.

经济激励被视为鼓励人们结婚的有效措施，因为国立社会保障和人口问题研究所2015年的一项调查显示，29.1%的25岁至34岁的单身男性和17.8%的单身女性将缺少结婚基金作为不婚的理由。

英文来源：共同社