Japan needs to expand its workforce, which is shrinking rapidly as a result of a declining birth rate and a rapidly aging population. The road ahead for Abe's mission to remedy gender inequality in the Japanese workforce is bumpy. Japan needs to change its deeply rooted social values on gender roles and foster a work style in which overtime is not the rule but the exception.

由于人口出生率下降且人口老龄化加速，日本劳动力正在迅速萎缩，因此急需扩大劳动力。日本劳动力性别存在差异，安倍想要弥补这一差异实属不易。日本需要改变其对性别角色根深蒂固的社会价值观，并培养这样的工作作风——加班不是规定，只是例外。

The best - and the simplest - way to encourage women's full participation in the workforce is to make child day care more readily and widely available. Doing so will allow mothers to return to workplaces whenever they see fit.

鼓励女性能够加入全职的最好且最易的办法便是日托所变得更多更广泛。这样，妈妈们在方便时可以重返职场。

Tokyo's parks are one of the places where the changes underway in Japanese society are visible and laudable.

人们可以在一些地方看到日本社会发生的可喜的变化，东京的公园便是这些场所之一。

Vocabulary

sea change: 突变;突发性彻底转变;重大变化

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