Like Yubari, Japan is also deeply in debt.

正如同夕张市面临的情况一样，日本也负债累累。

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In 2005 Yubari went bust with debts worth 14 times annual tax revenues.

在2005年，夕张市陷入财务危机，负债相当于年税收的14倍。

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For example, as in Yubari, overstretched social services might have to get close to collapse before action is taken.

例如，在夕张市，对社会服务的过度需求可能必须濒临崩溃才可能采取应对行动。

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Half a century ago Yubari, on the northern island of Hokkaido, was a coal-mining town with more than 100, 000 people.

ECONOMIST: It's an old folks' home out there

Mr Takenaka says that a new framework for local governments is needed to allow debts such as Yubari's to be forgiven.

ECONOMIST: It's an old folks' home out there

When there is no ambulance to answer a pensioner's anguished telephone call, as sometimes happens in Yubari, the consequences become all too clear.

ECONOMIST: Into the unknown