人口定时炸弹：日本人“濒危”的8个迹象

Friends are getting married out of desperation.
绝望的日本人选择和朋友结婚。

One of the main traits of the demographic time bomb is that young people focus a lot of their time on work instead of socializing, largely to keep up economically.
人口定时炸弹的主要特征之一是年轻人为了保持经济独立花很多时间用于工作，而不是社交。

They still want to get married, however, so the compromise they're making is just partnering up with friends.
尽管如此，他们仍然想结婚，所以他们做出的让步是和朋友组成家庭。

It's a real-life version of that game "If we're both not married by the time we're 40..." — except people are playing it in their late 20s.
这就是那个游戏的现实版：“如果我们40岁前还没结婚就……”只不过日本人从25岁以后就开始玩了。