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每日英語跟讀 Ep.K182: About Japan - Hokkaido city to promote camping resort as "workation" base

The city of Tomakomai in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, plans to promote a local camping resort for teleworkers interested in "workations" that combine work and vacations.

日本最北邊的主要島嶼北海道的苫小牧市，打算向有意「工作度假」結合工作與度假的遠距工作者，推銷當地的露營休閒場。

The municipal office is eyeing a budget of 40 million yen to provide high-speed internet access in the cottages and meeting rooms at Auto Resort Tomakomai Arten, a popular resort owned by the city close to New Chitose airport.

市府正打算用4000萬日圓預算，在當地熱門的公營Arten汽車渡假區的小木屋、會議室提供高速網路。

Workations are drawing attention with the growth of remote working amid the coronavirus pandemic.

由於在新型冠狀病毒疫情中，遠距工作增加，工作度假也正受到注意。

Tomakomai is facing a population decline and hopes its efforts will attract teleworkers to counter the trend, a city official said.

市府官員說，苫小牧正面臨人口減少，希望這麼做會吸引遠距工作者，扭轉這種趨勢。

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Nearly half of stations now unmanned; bane for the disabled近半數車站現為無人車站；身障者很傷腦筋

Nearly half of all railway stations in Japan are unmanned, an increase of 10 percent over the past two decades or so, leading to a litany of complaints from people with disabilities and others who require assistance, transport ministry data shows.

國土交通省數據顯示，日本近半數車站是無人站，過去約20年來成長10%，導致身障人士與其他需要協助者抱怨連連。

Safety issues also come into play, for example, when a passenger falls from a platform and there are no station staff to come to the rescue.

這也事涉安全，例如，當乘客（在無人站）跌落月台時，沒有站務員能前來營救。

In 2002, the country had 9,514 stations and 43.3 percent, or 4,120 of them, were unstaffed. As of March 2020, the overall number of stations remained almost unchanged, at 9,465, but the figure for unmanned stations jumped to 4,564, or 48.2 percent of the total.

2002年，日本的9514座車站中，43.3%即4120座是無人站；截至2020年3月，車站總數為9465座，幾乎不變，但無人站數量增為4564座，佔整體48.2%。Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1463389; https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1462354